0.6.2 and Ubuntu 12.04 not playing nice

[P4man]

Are you guys starting bitcoin automatically on startup?

[Raoul Duke]

Are you guys starting bitcoin automatically on startup?

Not me.
Lucky for me I didn't check that box on the Options or else I would be stuck with it, just like I'm stuck with the Minimize to tray on close lol

[tiptopgemdotcom]

I'm not either.

[qdi]

Just upgraded the client to 0.6.2 and the icon is no longer in the system tray (notification area?) when bitcoin is running.  It is also absent from the menu bar.  Hmmmm.  I guess I could choose to never minimize it but that doesn't seem practical.

Anyone?

restore program focus
terminal:> wmctrl -a bitcoin

[tiptopgemdotcom]

Just upgraded the client to 0.6.2 and the icon is no longer in the system tray (notification area?) when bitcoin is running.  It is also absent from the menu bar.  Hmmmm.  I guess I could choose to never minimize it but that doesn't seem practical.

Anyone?

restore program focus
terminal:> wmctrl -a bitcoin

Darn!  I was so hopeful when I saw this.  But no, it doesn't work at all.  Nothing happens.

[Raoul Duke]

tiptopgem, do you by any chance have Bitcoin pinned on the Laucher?
As soon as I unpinned mine from the sidebar launcher I got the menus back. Now at least I could change the options to close it instead of minimizing to tray lol

EDIT: Fixed it.
As soon as I unpinned it the icon never again showed up on the launcher sidebar. Here's what I did to fix all of the problems.
Open dash, type Bitcoin. Get your mouser over the Bitcoin icon and drag it to your desktop, it will create an icon/shortcut on the desktop. You can drag that shortcut to the launcher sidebar if you wish and voilá, whenever you use it, be it on the desktop or on the sidebar launcher, you will have the menus and system tray icon back

For some strange reason, when I added the desktop shortcut to the sidebar launcher, it remained there but it didn't had the little arrow that open apps have. After a couple restarts I managed to drag the Bitcoin shortcut from the dash to the launcher sidebar and now it works as intended, menus and tray icon included, having the arrow on the side od the icon when the client is open.

Some odd shit, I'll tell you that lol

[dirtycat]

tiptopgem, do you by any chance have Bitcoin pinned on the Laucher?
As soon as I unpinned mine from the sidebar launcher I got the menus back. Now at least I could change the options to close it instead of minimizing to tray lol

EDIT: Fixed it.
As soon as I unpinned it the icon never again showed up on the launcher sidebar. Here's what I did to fix all of the problems.
Open dash, type Bitcoin. Get your mouser over the Bitcoin icon and drag it to your desktop, it will create an icon/shortcut on the desktop. You can drag that shortcut to the launcher sidebar if you wish and voilá, whenever you use it, be it on the desktop or on the sidebar launcher, you will have the menus and system tray icon back

For some strange reason, when I added the desktop shortcut to the sidebar launcher, it remained there but it didn't had the little arrow that open apps have. After a couple restarts I managed to drag the Bitcoin shortcut from the dash to the launcher sidebar and now it works as intended, menus and tray icon included, having the arrow on the side od the icon when the client is open.

Some odd shit, I'll tell you that lol

Am I the only one still have problems with this?  Tried everything you said psy.. no luck.  I noticed the when I open 2 instances of the client I get the "bitcoin is probably already runing" error and I get the tray icon back but when I hit ok.. poof its gone again lol.

NOTE: As I was typing this post I opened it again and BAM! I got the tray icon back.. seems to be working everytime I open again.. definitely "Some odd shit"

[dirtycat]

And... now its gone again.  Guess I'll just stick with the command line until this is resolved.

[Raoul Duke]

And... now its gone again.  Guess I'll just stick with the command line until this is resolved.

The only way I found it to be working 100% of the time is to launch Bitcoin-qt using the shortcut on the desktop.
Shortcuts on the launcher always go on and off as they please.

[dirtycat]

And... now its gone again.  Guess I'll just stick with the command line until this is resolved.

The only way I found it to be working 100% of the time is to launch Bitcoin-qt using the shortcut on the desktop.
Shortcuts on the launcher always go on and off as they please.

I got the shortcut on the desktop but it seems to decide by itself when it wants to show me its tray icon.. what a tease.  Gotta cross my fingers everytime I run it.

[coinpeculiator]

I have the same issue of no file menu and no tray icon, I installed via the repo ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin.
I'm considering removing bitcoin-qt and installing it again but I'm worried I won't backup my wallet and chain data files correctly.

[dirtycat]

I have the same issue of no file menu and no tray icon, I installed via the repo ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin.
I'm considering removing bitcoin-qt and installing it again but I'm worried I won't backup my wallet and chain data files correctly.

oh forgot to post an update here.. if you compile from source everything is fine.

[Raoul Duke]

For people who don't want to compile from source, here's the solution:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=187302.0

[Gator-hex]

I don't know if this will help, but this is what I did with Ubuntu 12.04LTS and older version of Bitcoin-QT (not sure version but < 0.8.1)

Click on the top icon in the side tray.
Type "Bitcoin".
Click on the icon that looks like pencils,pen,ruler near the bottom if nothing shows.
It should come up with a Bitcoin icon that you can drag and drop into the side bar.
After launching it from the side bar, if you minimize, the sidebar gets a small white arrow, click this maximizes it again.
The menu bar is attached to the top of the screen, you need to click on the window to get focus before it shows the correct menu items though. If it don't work close bitcoin and start it again.

I hate Unity too!  

You're welcome to donate to 1LUF4Jp8PprpHcQVwXyLjCrdbSjFuaycUs if this helped you avoid pulling your hair out in anger. Thanks.

[P4man]

I hate Unity too.  

Then give elementary OS a try. its based on ubuntu, runs all ubuntu apps but has the best UI Ive come across so far.
oh and no problems with bitcoin-qt