racket / racket/drracket

Background expansion icon is not visible when it is disabled by default

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Description

When I install the latest snapshot (20170525-cc25a27f87) on a fresh Ubuntu 14.04.4 VirtualBox VM, upon the first start, the background expansion icon (the little red circle in the lower right corner) is not visible.

screenshot: the place where the red circle should appear is just empty, using the same gray colour as the rest of the status bar

Even after selecting a language with ctrl+L, and pressing F5 to run the program, the icon still does not show up. Same thing after typing an expression in the definitions window. DrRacket has to be restarted for the icon to show up.

screenshot: the place where the red circle should appear is just empty, using the same gray colour as the rest of the status bar, even when the definitions window contains #lang racket

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Reproduce the missing background expansion icon in DrRacket using the reported snapshot on a fresh Ubuntu 14.04.4 VM, then try Ctrl+L, F5, and entering an expression in the definitions window. No source file or test is named; done means the icon appears without restarting after these actions.

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Assessment

Domain
desktop, devtools
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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