'Cant find the background apps tray in Pop!_OS

All apps like "Steam", "Slack", "Anydesk" and etc. They were all displaying in black/white in a tray at my panel.

The update for POP!_OS was pending for a few weeks, so "what the heck, let's do this!"...

It was an instant regret when the PC rebooted... all GNOME extensions were GONE! I was not expecting this to happen... =/

I managed to remember most of the extensions I had running before, so I installed them all.

Didn't take me too much time to realize that the background apps are not showing anymore. They don't show in the dash, nor the panel or anywhere else besides the System Monitor.

The gnome extension Dash to Panel is active, as it may be related I'm posting this screen shot showing that all possible areas are "Visible".

How can I display the background apps again?

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Solution 1:[1]

Well, silly me...

I really don't know the reason for it, but seems like the package https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator was uninstalled during the update.

So the solution for the issue was:

  1. Installing this extension: $sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-appindicator
  2. Enabling it in the gnome extensions manager: Ubuntu Appindicators

I hope it helps someone! =)

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