spotify-tray on Sway

sicr0 · Apprentice Joined: 23 Mar 2022 Posts: 179

Hi, I have spotify installed and decided to also emerge spotify-tray. When I run Spotify from terminal I receive the message

sicr0 · Apprentice Joined: 23 Mar 2022 Posts: 179

niick · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 93

Same problem here (although kde plasma here)
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niick · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 93

Found a solution, I also had media-sound/spotify-tray installed so I ran;

sicr0 · Apprentice Joined: 23 Mar 2022 Posts: 179

Yea, I also figured that removing spotify-tray would fix it.

Still its a mystery why does the crash happen.

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21586

What crashes? The original report just says that spotify-tray encounters a CRITICAL error, then explicitly quits because it cannot continue. When in that situation, do any X11 applications work? It was my understanding that while XWayland can allow you to display an X11 application on a Wayland display, that it does not automatically come into existence at the moment of need. You need XWayland running and offering service at the time the X11-using application asks for it.

sicr0 · Apprentice Joined: 23 Mar 2022 Posts: 179

Hey Hu, at the time I opened this issue I wasn't as skilled. Then it fell to oblivion so I didn't update it.

Yea, if you have Spotify and spotify-tray installed (and as far as I was able to experiment) this happens on Wayland: if you launch Spotify from a menu (i.e. Rofi) it silently crashes without even presenting the UI, and the error message I wrote is the output produced by launching Spotify from the terminal

SimPilotAdamT · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 1:23 am Post subject:

Hello people.. I am aware that it is 2 months later but I do want to mention that it is most likely an upstream issue... So I reported it to the upstream GitHub repo's owner, here. Maybe it can actually be resolved.

SimPilotAdamT · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 5:16 pm Post subject:

There will be no Wayland support for spotify-tray, ever, According to the developer in a comment in the issue I linked in the above reply, spotify-tray uses functions defined in X that are not replicated in Wayland, and cannot be done through XWayland for security reasons. Someone else may find a better solution to the issue, but that will likely require a rewrite of the entire codebase.

sicr0 · Apprentice Joined: 23 Mar 2022 Posts: 179

SimPilotAdamT, thanks. I use a custom Waybar module for Spotify now. If you want I can share it. It works fairly good

SimPilotAdamT · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 10:25 pm Post subject:

sicr0 I would have loved to, but I use the built-in KDE Plasma panels so I can't use anything from Waybar... post your configs anyway, I'm sure someone is using Waybar out there and wants this kind of functionality

AndrewAmmerlaan · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2023 8:57 am Post subject:

Btw,