Hi to everyone. What is this icon in the taskbar? The one with the three little dots and small bars on the top and bottom. I've never seen this one before. What is it?
I believe that's your networking icon, and is attempting to connect / getting stuck connecting to something? At least, that's what I'm pretty sure that icon is, unless I'm way out to lunch (and let me tell you, this lunch is pretty great).
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Ha. Glad to know you're enjoying your lunch. Hmm.
OK - just never saw it before. See if anyone chimes in.
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The (wired) Network loading Icon looks a bit different. But this is indeed a loading Icon. And I found one that fits: image-loading-symbolic.svg which is a symbolic Status Icon.
@Omnimaxus:
Do You have any Services related to that? A Gnome Extension or whatever? When You click it, do You get any (small) Window or Options Window?
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Update:
Just did a little testing. Went through some of my apps. Nothing came up until I clicked on the Zoom Workplace app. The same icon (with three dots and a top and bottom bar) came up very briefly, then was immediately replaced by the Zoom icon. When I exited the app, the icon disappeared. So, there has to be some kind of app that the original icon isn't changing for. I wonder what it could be. The next time this "mysterious" icon comes up (and doesn't disappear), I'll pull up the Task Manager and see if I can find anything listed that may be a clue.
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Could it be a VPN connection trying to connect?
I don't have VPN. I may use it in the future, though.
I've seen it many times before, it's a loading icon I believe.
Wondering if it is an updated version of Thunderbolt notification:
Also found this:
The post with 6 votes is worth delving into with the links, this one got my notice:
I am getting a smilar icon when trying to launch trayscale (which fails to load).
Advice from AI suggests (for my issue):
Root Cause
systray error: failed to request name: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
This indicates the DBus service required by the systray is not available in your Flatpak sandbox. The panic is triggered when Trayscale tries to set the tray icon but cannot communicate with the DBus session bus correctly.
Repeated Errors:
write: broken pipedbus: connection closed by userdbus: connection closed by user
These suggest that DBus communication is either misconfigured or not permitted in the sandbox.
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So could this be the same issue?
Have you tried hovering the mouse cursor over it or right-clicking for info?
I actually did do that once; an empty (but small) window showed up. Nothing.
I don't have "trayscale" installed or anything like that. I don't know what it is. But clearly, something was launching, and Zorin couldn't show the correct icon, so GNOME showed a placeholder icon in its place. It hasn't happened for a while, so I haven't had an opportunity to investigate further. Still a mystery. Maybe I should ask Scooby-Doo and the Scooby gang to solve it? Ha ...
OK, but what is causing it to come up? That's the question. It hasn't come up again yet, so I haven't had an opportunity to properly investigate. I can't try and solve something that's not happening at the moment, so ... I mean, I won't have any complaints if it doesn't happen again, but as of yet, it's unsolvable.
I ... don't think so ... ? But thanks for the links and all. Learned something new.
Which program you mean? I don't know which one it is in your case. For me it was Filen cloud sync, and network when I connected the Ethernet cable.
Edit: I should note that once everything loaded correctly the loading icon disappeared and was replaced by a proper icon (Filen, network)
It may be a general purpose loading/status in flux icon. You mentioned not using a VPN, but I see it when a VPN is trying to establish a connection. Zoom may have been working on something before finishing. Whatever it is, it's definitely not application specific, since I don't use Zoom.
Wouldn't event logs be the obvious place to look?
I ... hadn't considered that. That is a good suggestion. I just checked, and my logs go back only a day or so. The mysterious icon still hasn't come back, too, so right now I have no idea what it was being caused by. The interesting thing is that it never came up at all in Zorin 17, 17.1, and 17.2. But now with 17.3, it's a different story altogether. Wonder what happened. If it comes back, I'll check further.
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Changed my search criteria and found it!:
" Two Bars with 3 Dots
In some Linux systems, particularly after certain upgrades or with specific configurations, legacy tray icons might appear as two horizontal bars with three dots in between instead of the actual icon. This issue has been reported by users on Fedora 32, where the gnome-shell-extension-appindicator package version 33-1.fc32 caused legacy tray icons like Nextcloud, Steam, and Electron Mail to display as three dots.
This problem can occur when the system is unable to properly display the icons for certain applications, leading to the placeholder of two horizontal bars with three dots. Users have suggested trying different versions of the gnome-shell-extension-appindicator or checking if the issue persists with other applications.
AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts."