Howto enable system tray on elementary OS

Many applications still uses the old system tray implantation. This guide will show you how to enable it on elementary OS.

Open the terminal and copy/paste the following;

sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yunnxx/elementary
sudo apt update
sudo apt install indicator-application wingpanel-indicator-ayatana

The next thing is to add Pantheon to your autostart/indicator-application.desktop

sudo nano /etc/xdg/autostart/indicator-application.desktop

You’ll find a line called OnlyShowIn=Unity;GNOME; add Pantheon; to it. It should now look like;

OnlyShowIn=Unity;GNOME;Pantheon;

Save: [ctrl]+[o]
Exit: [ctrl]+[x]

There’s a bug that will show you two network indicators in your system tray.. To correct it, copy/paste;

cd /etc/xdg/autostart
sudo rm nm-applet.desktop

Reboot

Enjoy! ^_^

TESTED on: elementary OS 5.1.4