Can't open Trayscale with SteamOS 3.6

[kdliu86]

With the latest 3.6 update, it auto minimalizes and shows a grey icon in the tray. Trying to click "show" doesn't do anything.

I reinstalled tailscale using tailscale-dev/deck-tailscale and trayscale still doesn't work. My tailscale is connected though, just can't use Trayscale for management.

I uninstalled and reinstalled latest from flathub, still has the same issue.

[DeedleFake]

Can you run it from a terminal get the output? The Flathub version should be runnable as dev.deedles.Trayscale.

[DeedleFake]

I was able to replicate this on my own Steam Deck. Looks like it's yet another D-Bus problem, but this time with Gtk4 application registration system.

[kdliu86]

Sorry, I was out of the country for the last few weeks and was unable to test! I stopped using Trayscale since the submission date because it was causing my Tailscale to bug out and didn't want to be stuck while in another country.

[DeedleFake]

In what way was it causing it to bug out? There are a number of crash bugs but I haven't gotten any reports about it causing issues with Tailscale itself.

[kdliu86]

Normally I have Tailscale always connected controlled by Trayscale in Desktop mode. Once the Trayscale app stopped opening up normally, Tailscale would stay disconnected. I could switch to gaming mode, try to toggle Tailscale on/off using the decky plugin and nothing would happen (it would stay disabled).

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[chh-70]

I am running into the same problem on two Ubuntu VMs I am trying to set up
Trayicon appears in grey, no reaction to clicking Show or Connect.

This is the error I get on the command line.

flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=trayscale dev.deedles.Trayscale
2024/11/29 16:08:22 systray error: failed to request name: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown

possibly interesting: I tried starting it as root, of course got some errors because it being another users X session but the app opened and complained about not being the tailscale operator.

[DeedleFake]

@chh-70

Have you set up your user as the Tailscale operator using sudo tailscale set --operator=$USER and then tried running Trayscale as the same user?

[chh-70]

Aftter using that command trayscale starts as expected.
Interestingly I did not need to do that on my physical install of Ubuntu.
Though it is possible I installed it manually there, not using flatpak.

[DeedleFake]

Hmmm... Any installation of Trayscale need to have the operator set up first. It's a security feature in Tailscale. It rejects attempts by regular users to send commands to the daemon unless they're the operator user. It's possible that the installation Tailscale on Ubuntu set you up as the operator automatically or something.