How to show Wine System tray icons in the system top bar ? ( Ubuntu 18.04 )

Question

I use a lot of windows applications on my Ubuntu and many of them have an icon in the system tray , which is shown as small window instead of being integrated with the system tray of Ubuntu where native applications icons are being shown ?

Solution

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 currently, so I didn't test my solution in Ubuntu 18.04. But, I suggest that you should use Topicons Plus.

As I know, Ubuntu 18.04 has Gnome shell version 3.28 and Topicons Plus supports it.

On Ubuntu 20.04, I could install it in official apt repository. (gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus). Please try it on Ubuntu 18.04.

Comments

[pomsky]

The answer would probably be desktop environment (DE) specific. I added the [gnome-shell] tag as the standard Ubuntu 18.04 has GNOME by default. If you're using another DE (e.g. Unity/KDE/MATE/Xfce etc.) please edit your question and add that info.

[qid]

Same problem exists in Ubuntu 18.10. Found some old suggestions on reddit but libappindicator was already installed, and installing sni-qt didn't have any affect. I'll try the suggested System tray indicator for Unity and see if it works.