Variety icon not visible in system tray, elementary OS [Juno]

[kid101]

Variety panel indicator Missing on Elementary OS [Juno]. I've to keep it open in the dock.

[Scridgeon]

I found a workaround that allows you to have a tray to manage Variety and and you can hide the tray when you don't want it.

1. Install trayer from the app store/repository. I kept launching it from the terminal to get the settings sorted out.

2. Create a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications. Here is what I put in my file. This will create an icon with the rest of your apps that you can click on to launch.
   .desktop file contents that I used:
   [Desktop Entry]
   Type=Application
   Name=Trayer
   Exec=/usr/bin/trayer --align left --widthtype request --height 50 --expand true
   Icon=/home/username/.icons/notification.svg ## choose the location for the image you want to use
   Terminal=false
   StartupWMClass=trayer

3. Create a hotkey to kill trayer when you don't want to look at it. Go to Elementary OS settings and pick keyboard. From there click on Custom along the left and add create a new shortcut. I used killall trayer as the command to run.

[jlu5]

Elementary OS removed indicator support a while ago. https://github.com/mdh34/elementary-indicators and https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/08/how-to-re-enable-ayatana-appindicators.html are some resources on how to reenable it.

Otherwise, #12 and #87 are working towards a long term, indicator-free solution to this mess.