syncthing / syncthing/syncthing-macos
New installation doesn't show tray icon (but is running in the background)
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Description
This a followup of https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-macos/issues/188#issuecomment-1482104140.
Recap:
- User did download the DMG release
- Installed it on macOS 13.2.1
- Nothing is shown in the status bar, the tray icon is not visible
- The
~/Library/Application Support/Syncthing/syncthing.logsyncthing daemon logfile is created - When the Syncthing.app is clicked again, it says it is already running
As I don't own hardware to run Syncthing on macOS 13.2.1 I'm unable to reproduce this. My hardware only supports macOS 12 or 11 unfortunatly.
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the installation on macOS 13.2.1 and check whether Syncthing.app is running while no status-bar icon appears. Inspect ~/Library/Application Support/Syncthing/syncthing.log and compare the behavior with macOS 11 or 12. Done means a new DMG installation reliably shows its tray icon while the daemon runs.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- objective-c
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100