Keepassxc system tray icon on KDE

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Hi using Fedora 42 KDE and Keepassxc as a password manager, for the life of me I can’t seem to get the Keepassxc system tray icon to display.
Installed Keepassxc using

Code:

sudo dnf install keepassxc

( system tray icon is selected in keepassxc settings )
All other system tray icons from programs I added work as expected, any help would be welcome.
I usually do not ask for help.
Thanks

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Don’t use it, but just installed it to check and all three icon variants show up in my panel. The version that installed for me was 2.7.10.

Screenshot_20251021_212614

It’s not hidden under the “show hidden icons” option in the panel is it? Click the up arrow (between the wifi icon and clock in my screenshot above), then click the settings icon to adjust visibility of icons. You should see the options like in the screenshot below. Worth a shot.

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Also, I had a gander in .config/keepassxc/keepassxc.ini and my file is as follows;

[General]
ConfigVersion=2

[Browser]
CustomProxyLocation=

[GUI]
MinimizeToTray=true
ShowTrayIcon=true
TrayIconAppearance=colorful

[KeeShare]
Active="<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><KeeShare><Active/></KeeShare>\n"
Own="<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><KeeShare><PrivateKey>it's_private>
QuietSuccess=true

[PasswordGenerator]
AdditionalChars=
ExcludedChars=

Should probably check that too under the [GUI] section to make sure it’s setting properly.

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Thanks I will remove the package and installing again.

Edit: No joy, maybe it’s because I’m running it on qemu/kvm.

Thanks for your time, it means a lot.

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I see you added to your post, Thanks

I checked the system tray settings and I do not have KeePassXC entry like you do.

Likely my problem, not sure why?

My keepassxc.ini is like yours.

[GUI]
MinimizeToTray=true
ShowTrayIcon=true
TrayIconAppearance=colorful

Scratching my head,

Thanks

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FYI Reinstalling almost never changes things on linux systems as the settings are in the /home not the system.

Removing an existing config/state file is usually what helps, if its a config issue.

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So what does the wise man recommend using?

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Lose the attitude. I meant “I don’t use it.”

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Yes when I removed the package I remove the directory from ./config as well.

However I removed it again and the file was recreated on launch of keepassxc, no joy still.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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I found the problem after install to bare meta keepassxc started to display the system tray icon. Then I install firejail and the system tray icon disappeared. Running firejail –noprofile keepassxc seems to work fine and the icon displays as expected.

Sorry to bother all you good folks and thanks to everyone again.

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