Clicking the Tribler icon on Ubuntu 22 doesn't do anything (running from source)

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On Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS the Tribler icon shows up but clicking (right or left) the icon does not show a context menu to open the browser.

[qstokkink]

This might be https://github.com/moses-palmer/pystray/issues/ 20

It could also be this:

It will be displayed when the right-hand button has been pressed on the icon on Windows, and when the icon has been clicked on other platforms. Menus are not supported on X.

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To confirm:

>>> pystray.Icon.HAS_MENU
False

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I added a quick workaround to make a press function like a click on "Open" in the menu.

diff --git a/src/run_tribler.py b/src/run_tribler.py
index 9200e6eb7..02209fe6d 100644
--- a/src/run_tribler.py
+++ b/src/run_tribler.py
@@ -92,6 +92,14 @@ async def main() -> None:
     menu = (pystray.MenuItem('Open', lambda: webbrowser.open_new_tab(url)),
             pystray.MenuItem('Quit', lambda: session.shutdown_event.set()))
     icon = pystray.Icon("Tribler", icon=image, title="Tribler", menu=menu)
+
+    import Xlib
+    old_dispatch = icon._message_handlers[Xlib.X.ButtonPress]
+    def dispatch_press(event):
+        old_dispatch(event)
+        webbrowser.open_new_tab(url)
+    icon._message_handlers[Xlib.X.ButtonPress] = dispatch_press
+
     threading.Thread(target=icon.run).start()

     await session.shutdown_event.wait()

[egbertbouman]

Ideally, you'd want to use the appindicator backend. Have you tried running sudo apt install gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1?

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Have you tried running sudo apt install gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1?

I just tried: I still don't get a menu. I printed pystray.Icon.__module__ and it gave me pystray._xorg.

I figured I could force the matter using from pystray._appindicator import Icon. Then I got ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'.

Then I installed sudo apt install libgirepository1.0-dev and python -m pip install PyGObject. However, the latter (pip) failed because pycairo does not build in pip. I'll see if I can resolve that next week.

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At least the build works. I guess I'll downgrade this from a bug to a feature request, a "nice to have" for when I run from source.

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I think that fixing #8085 offers a workable workaround for this.

The only downside then is that closing the browser tab will make you "lose" Tribler and you'll have to manually invoke the GUI with the API key. However, when running from source, the Tribler process should be available from your terminal anyway to restore/kill.