Opening easyeffects with the right appindicator freezes my system

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Yeah I guess Idk

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" Users report that activating the EasyEffects System Tray icon triggers instability and crashes in GNOME Shell when using the AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support extension, a behavior that has been documented on GNOME 50.3 and Bazzite systems.

  • Root Cause : The crash is attributed to the interaction between EasyEffects' tray implementation and the AppIndicator extension, which can cause the entire GNOME Shell session to become unstable.
  • Affected Versions : This specific tray-induced crash has been confirmed on GNOME 50.3 with AppIndicator 65 , though similar freezing issues (freezing the top menu and other apps) have been reported on older versions like GNOME 43.3 .
  • Workarounds : Users experiencing this instability have found that disabling the AppIndicator extension or using the Flatpak version of EasyEffects (which handles system tray integration differently) can prevent the session crash.

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This is a bit ... short. Could You maybe expalin the Issue a bit more in Detail? Maybe post some Screenshots, too.

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if the freeze hits the second you click the EasyEffects tray icon, that is the AppIndicator + EasyEffects tray fight on gnome.

quick test: open EasyEffects from the app menu (no tray click), then in EasyEffects preferences turn the system tray icon off. if the desktop stays stable, leave the tray off or use the flatpak build.

when it freezes next time, from another tty (Ctrl+Alt+F3) grab:

journalctl -b -p err --no-pager | tail -80

and say zorin 17 or 18 + x11 or wayland.