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Hello guys,
I am currently running the Spotify Client 0.9.17 (even though I installed 1:0.9.17 from the package manager).
Since the last one or two updates the tray icon in the top has gone missing and when I close the Spotify window, the music continues playing as it should. (My picture shows working tray icons using a gnome extension) When I am finished listening I always have to end the Spotify processes manually which is quite annoying.
Should I opt for the 0.9.17 version from my package manager? Is there any workaround?
Thanks in advance!!
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Hello @Lippdo and welcome to Spotify Community ! : )
You can download latest version from here :
http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify-client/
For amd64 architecture
wget http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify-client/spotify-client_1.0.14.124.g4dfabc51_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i spotify-client_1.0.14.124.g4dfabc51_amd64.deb
For i386 architecture
wget http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify-client/spotify-client_1.0.14.122.gf29d9be0_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i spotify-client_1.0.14.122.gf29d9be0_i386.deb
Now your Spotify should be up to date. Let me know if the issue with the tray icon persists or if you run into problems : )
Thanks for the quick answer, @Dreadlord!
When I close the Spotify window the music stops as well, so my biggest problem is gone, thx 😄
Sadly, the tray icon is still missing :(, but I can live with that.
Hey @Lippdo,
I am not currently on my linux machine, but you can check preferences ( control + P ) for something like this:
or you can try adding the following line to your prefs file :
ui.minimize_to_tray=true
I guess the switch should be below the point "Window Behaviour".
Adding your line to the prefs didn't change anything 😞
I'm now deleting all config files and reinstalling it completely, maybe something got corrupted
Hey,
If you have any success, let me know.
Meanwhile, I am setting my VB to see how we can solve this 😛
Ok, sadly it didn't work.
The Part below "Window behaviour" is still empty.
I'm running Ubuntu 15.04 Gnome 3.14, in case you need it for your VB
Hey! is it a 64bit edition right? What video card do you have? what drivers? Do you have this problem in other apps?
Thanks for all the work @Dreadlord !!
Nice to hear that it is worked on, even if it takes some time !!
I'm quite fine with the Client, since I can now close it and don't have to kill the processes manually, so again thanks for your help !
Is there any reason why the newest version doesn't land in the Ubuntu PPA ?
Hey @Lippdo,
I can see that the Ubuntu PPA is providing only latest stable version ( currently 1.0.9 ). To install it, you need to run :
sudo apt-get install spotify-client-qt spotify-client-gnome-support
Cheers : )
You just saved my day with: (Looks like it did not lol...spotify is re-writing that prefs and ignoring that variable)
ui.minimize_to_tray=true
Looks like the last version on Debian 9 has issues in showing up that menu...
Thank you!
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