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After unlocking my computer, I noticed that all of my usual indicator icons went missing this afternoon. I'm missing icons for Slack, Keybase, Chrome, Nextcloud Client, Dropbox, Deluge, Flameshot, and Skype. Before I noticed this, I also noticed that my side-bar (with icons for my open apps and favorited ones) was visible on my lock-screen. I couldn't get a screenshot of that, though, as the Print Screen was (rightfully) still disabled on lock screen and is probably not related.

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I saw this post, but his issue was that Unity was messing him up. This particular laptop has never had anything below 18.04 installed on it. It came with Windows 10 but I promptly replaced it with Ubuntu 18.04 as soon as I got it. As such, Unity has never been installed.

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  • One-time issue or happening all the time? – pomsky Jan 28 '19 at 23:02
  • @pomsky This is the first time I've noticed it after about 9 months of owning the laptop. I did run an apt full-upgrade today, but it only installed updates to Libre Office and DBeaver. – Donald Brown Jan 28 '19 at 23:27
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    This glitch happens every now and the, kinda hard to reproduce. See this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1087051/ubuntu-18-10-gnome-extensions-stop-working-after-hibernation – pomsky Jan 28 '19 at 23:40
  • try restarting that some times helps for me – Budget Tech Jan 29 '19 at 01:02
  • @pomsky thanks for the tip. I never use sleep or hibernate, this happens after just a simple lock. Hopefully they'll get this fixed soon enough. – Donald Brown Jan 31 '19 at 18:20
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    Locking screen is enough to hit this wall as due to GNOME's security policy, whenever you even lock your screen, all of your extensions get disabled automatically until you get back in. It seems the re-enabling process for the appindicator extension fails sometimes. – pomsky Jan 31 '19 at 19:39

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Pressing Alt+F2 and running r will reset the indicator icons and get them to show again. More information and a permanent fix can be found here, Fix Missing Indicator Icons On Ubuntu 18.04 Or 18.10 . I too have experienced this issue on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 install. I haven't yet tried the permanent fix as listed in the website I linked.

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