Tray icon invisible on Mac

[OA2000]

Tray icon on Mac is existing and works. But it is invisible. It shows only up, if you click on it. See images.

macOS Sequoia 15.1.1.
Duplicati Version 2.1.0.2_beta_2024-11-29

[kenkendk]

Hi @OA2000, thanks for reporting this.

The tray icons have been updated in the latest canary build to look better in dark mode:

Release: 2.1.0.101 (Canary) 2024-12-06

2.1.0.101_canary_2024-12-06 This release is a canary release intended to be used for testing. Note that this build is using .NET8, unlike the 2.0.8.1 build Breaking change from previous canary The pCloud backend is updated to support subfolders. Paths with / will now be treated as a folder structure on pCloud. Previous version would treat folder/subfolder as a single foldername, this version treats it as folder / subfolder. Detailed list of changes: Fixed a case where the TrayIcon would h…

[OA2000]

Oh, bright mode is the solution (until the next non-canary version). Kenkendk, many thanks for enlightening me.

[chrism]

Still not working with 2.1.0.5_stable_2025-03-04 (which says it fixes it) and MacOS Sonoma 14.7.3. (My older Macbook doesn’t support Sequoia, but as I understand it, Dark mode works the same in Sonoma). The OS changes the menu text and icon colors based on the brightness of the wallpaper, and Duplicati is the only icon that doesn’t change to suit. It is perpetually stuck for light backgrounds.

[kenkendk]

The change was to include dark-mode icons, so if you start Duplicati while in dark-mode, it will have dark-mode icons. There is currently no support for detecting a switch between light and dark mode. I have added an issue for getting dynamic mode switching fixed.

[chrism]

Thanks. I tested it as you described (by starting Duplicati while Mac OS’s “Appearance” setting is set to “Dark”) and can confirm that Duplicati uses the dark mode icons when it starts in that case. (And likewise for light mode.) I also discovered that Duplicati does seem to be performing a dynamic check of the mode – once when Duplicati’s “Pause after startup or hibernation” timer expires and also, it seems, every 5 minutes. It will change the icon color based on the current Appearance setting at those times too. So the problem is just that in MacOS BigSur and later, the OS inverts the menu icon colors depending on the wallpaper brightness independently of the Dark/Light appearance setting (since the menu is, by default, translucent). This seems to be poorly (or not even?) documented by Apple, but here is another github project dealing with this: MacOS menu bar icon dark/light switching · AvaloniaUI/Avalonia · Discussion #12954 · GitHub.

Thanks for adding the new issue where this will presumably be tracked.

[kenkendk]

@chrism

but here is another github project dealing with this: MacOS menu bar icon dark/light switching · AvaloniaUI/Avalonia · Discussion #12954 · GitHub.

Great. Looks like the plumbing for this is ready (or will be soon), then we just need to create the template icons.

[Monstergerm]

Is there an update to this? I just want to be able to see the menu bar icon on bright and dark wall papers, which is different from Dark/Light mode. Also, in the past the menu bar icon changed when there was an error or warning. This does not seem to happen anymore on Macs.

[kenkendk]

@Monstergerm

Is there an update to this?

Thanks for bringing it up again. I looked at the AvaloniaUI code, and the support has been there for at least a year, but it was non-obvious how to use it.

I have implemented the template icons that change color automatically, and it will be part of the next release.