Arch Linux - GUI; Closing app window does not exit program

[Howarddj]

When using the GUI on arch linux, everything works perfectly except for closing the app.
if i close the app using the X in the top right hand corner it closes the window but leaves the app running in the background, which prevents me from reopening the app again until i restart the machine, stating the " another instance is already running"
using the "exit" tab in the GUI closes the app correctly and allows me to reopen it again.

is this something that can be fixed?

[4JX]

This is intended behavior to keep the program running in the background without a GUI window. You should have an icon on your tray to close the program if needed.

In the case that anything goes wrong while creating the tray icon the program is coded to instead just close as normal once you press on the "X" in the window.

Worst case scenario though, why not just kill the process instead of restarting your whole machine?

[Howarddj]

ah, that make sense.
i guess because gnome doesn't normally support system tray icons there is something going wrong with creating one, even though i am using an extension to bring back the system tray to gnome.
either way it isn't a major issue as i can just use the exit tab to close the app with no issues.
thank you for the quick response and clarification, much appreciated.

[4JX]

i guess because gnome doesn't normally support system tray icons there is something going wrong with creating one, even though i am using an extension to bring back the system tray to gnome.

Which one?

I guess it's only kind-of-failing but not enough for the program to realize and switch behaviors. I could switch back to a GTK based implementation as it was better behaved, but that adds quite the list of deps for something so "unrelated".

[Howarddj]

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2890/tray-icons-reloaded/

I'm using tray icons : reloaded. I can always try another extension though