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Good morning, Mastodon! Quick question about #gnome in #fedora (for a friend): Since the Gnome project is not actively supporting tray (notification) icons, how would a user monitor if a given software is running as expected in the background? The question is specifically related to #InSync; a software used to keep cloud files synced to local machine.
#gnome #fedora #insync
in reply to Caio C. G. Oliveira

Emmanuele Bassi
Emmanuele Bassi
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Background applications can use the corresponding portal to negotiate with the user whether they can run in the background and/or register to start with the session: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.Background.html

GNOME will show apps in the background inside the system menu: https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-shell-background-apps-ui/


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Emmanuele Bassi
Emmanuele Bassi
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You should probably raise the issue with the InSync developers: the background portal is the cross-platform API needed to make things run in the background, to allow desktop environments to detect apps running in the background, and provide a way for users to allow or revoke that ability. It's a somewhat "new" API, but unlike the tray icons, is not bound to a specific windowing system or desktop
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