Bug#904136: lightdm-gtk-greeter: Ayatana indicators aren't shown shown in lightdm-gtk-greeter

[Michael Schaller <misch@google.com>]

Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter
Version: 2.0.5-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I've tried to use ayatana-indicator-printers with lightdm-gtk-greeter but the indicator isn't shown in the greeter.
For this I've added /usr/lib/ayatana-indicators3/7/libayatana-printersmenu.so to the indicators list in /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.
The lightdm-gtk-greeter process then had libayatana-printersmenu.so in its memory map but the indicator icon itself didn't appear and there was no log output under /var/log/lightdm/ that would indicate an obvious issue.

I've also tried ayatana-indicator-application with 'nm-applet --indicator' but I had again the same issue.
Can it be that the Ayatana indicators generally don't work yet with lightdm-gtk-greeter or am I doing something wrong?

Best,

Michael Schaller


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386