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It used to work on Fedora out-of-the-box, but when I installed ProtonVPN on Debian I couldn't get it to minimize to the waybar tray.

The instructions at the proton installation guide page for debian provide a fix for Gnome. Does something like it exist for sway?

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (6 children)

May want to try installing Waybar. The default one in Sway has issues like this.

[–] mmm@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I'm already using waybar.... I'm sorry if it wasn't clear in the post.

[–] whimsy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Do other tray applications work?

[–] mmm@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, everything else I use works and minimizes to tray as usual

[–] whimsy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Oh okay, I thought it might have been some config issue with the tray waybar module. But seems like it's not. I'm not sure in this case, maybe look at the logs if there's some dependency missing or something

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