ebassi, 1 month ago

@caiocgo 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/

caiocgo, 1 month ago

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ebassi, 1 month ago

@caiocgo 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

picturavis, 1 month ago

@caiocgo You can try https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-support/. I use it for a similar purpose.

caiocgo, 1 month ago

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picturavis, 1 month ago

@caiocgo You are welcome! I am on Fedora 39 (GNOME 45.5) and it works flawlessly. If you are on Fedora 40 already, then yeah, it might not work. GNOME extensions are known to break easily between GNOME versions and take a bit of time to be made compatible.