MinimWatch - no tray icon(s) or desktop launcher

[simoncn]

I apologise for my confusing reference to MinimServer update 105 in my previous post. On reviewing this thread, I see that your issue concerned MinimWatch running on a GNOME desktop. Given this, you don't need to change anything in your MinimServer configuration but you do need to install the latest MinimWatch update (update 54).

The error message about "unable to create tray icon" is caused by an incompatibility between the latest GNOME 3.26 and Java. This is because of a decision by the GNOME developers to remove functionality that was available in previous versions of GNOME and is vital for Java to function correctly. The only solution I have found for this problem is to install TopIcons Plus on the GNOME desktop.

In addition to this problem, there are other issues with Java and GNOME (not just the latest version of GNOME) not working together correctly. In my opinion, these issues are caused by Java and should be fixed in Java. However, it will probably be a long time before this happens, so I have added a workaround to MinimWatch and MinimServer that allows them to work on GNOME without the Java fix. This is intended to be a temporary workaround until there is a Java fix available.

The workaround requires the GNOME machine to have Java 9 and MinimWatch update 53 (or later) or MinimServer update 105 (or later). If MinimWatch is running on the GNOME machine and MinimServer is running on some other machine, it doesn't matter what versions of Java and MinimServer are installed on the other machine.