# System Tray on Linux

System Tray on Linux Note : the message about not showing the SysTray is usually a false alarm on Ubuntu. Sorry. The normal way that a user interacts with tomboy-ng is via a small yellow icon that appears on the System Tray, sometimes called the notification area. However, not all Linux Desktop Environments are able to display System Tray Icons, and some that can do not do so by default. If you can see a small, yellow icon, possibly upper right of your screen, you don't have a problem, well done in choosing a user focused Desktop. If you cannot see it, you are probably using a Desktop that may not display the System Tray. Firstly, see if your particular Desktop just needs to configured to display a SysTray, failing that, you have a number of alternatives - tint2 Install the very useful tint2 panel. It has no trouble displaying a System Tray on all Linux Desktops that I have tested. It seems to be widely available. Typically, you might type one of the following command in your terminal - sudo yum install tint2 sudo dnf install tint2 sudo apt install tint2 Start tint2 before you start work and if you like that model, add it to your startup applications. Using your dock Gnome 3 typically has a 'dock' down the left side, maybe only visible after you click Activities'. Some other Desktops have similar docks. After starting tomboy-ng (the first time), and before you 'hide' it, find its yellow Icon in your dock. Right click it and choose add to favourites. You can now 'Hide' the tomboy-ng splash screen and activate tomboy-ng at any time directly from the dock. To close tomboy-ng completely, click the tomboy-ng icon in the dock, tomboy-ng's search box opens, click 'Menu' and 'close'. Other Approaches Similarly to the above approach, if you start tomboy-ng and hide it, you can activate it at any time from the Menu you normally use to start an application. In this way, you are not restarting it each time, its always there, the restart attempt just prompts the running instance to pop up its Search Window. There are some Gnome Extensions that you can install to restore a functioning System Tray but especially if you are using Wayland they may be just too hard. But if you are willing to disable wayland and use xorg instead, that just might work. Search for TopIconsPlus. 2021-02-01T18:48:56.2321715+11:00 2021-02-01T18:48:56.2321715+11:00 2021-01-23T13:48:35.2369237+11:00 1 1 912 497 847 292 False