Ubuntu 18.04 no PIA icon in system tray but VPN is active

p8770595

After Ubuntu 18.04 is booted and i'm loged in PIA starts automatically but there is no icon and i dont know how to interact with the tool.

martouf

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/comment/55461/#Comment_55461

vic123

I'm running into this same issue and the link above didn't fix my problem with it showing in the systray.  Has anybody found a solution?

EDIT: Scratch that.  If I use a different theme (like the Ubuntu Community Theme), the icon doesn't pop up.  If I switch back to the default Gnome theme, it works fine.

Max-P

That sounds like it's likely the theme yeah. Right now that it works at all pretty much depends on an Ubuntu shell extension they used to keep AppIndicators working, but it makes sense that anything that follows Gnome a bit more closely ends up with the extension not working. It's not really that PIA doesn't pop the icon but rather that the theme doesn't place the indicators area at all.

johpe

I don't get any indicatior icon either, no matter what I do. I've tried the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity thing but it doesn't help. 

This is the output I get when starting the run.sh script from a console:

/opt/pia/run.sh 

Attempting to start PIA...

Attempting to start PIA...

pia_nw: no process found

[3222:3222:0512/172128.462309:ERROR:gpu_process_transport_factory.cc(1024)] Lost UI shared context.

[3222:3222:0512/172129.970001:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(333)] GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

Usage: inet_route [-vF] del {-host|-net} Target[/prefix] [gw Gw] [metric M] [[dev] If]

       inet_route [-vF] add {-host|-net} Target[/prefix] [gw Gw] [metric M]

                              [netmask N] [mss Mss] [window W] [irtt I]

                              [mod] [dyn] [reinstate] [[dev] If]

       inet_route [-vF] add {-host|-net} Target[/prefix] [metric M] reject

       inet_route [-FC] flush      NOT supported