activitywatch: error dialog about trayicon

[davidak]

Nixpkgs version

• Stable (25.11)

Describe the bug

I start activitywatch from autostart and always get this error message:

I couldn't detect any system tray on this system. Either get one or run the ActivityWatch modules from the console.

This is very annoying and make the computer feel broken.

I think this needs to be fixed upstream.

Steps to reproduce

1. start aw-qt

Expected behaviour

no errors

Screenshots

Relevant log output

Additional context

I use Pantheon desktop, which does not support trayicons.

https://github.com/orgs/elementary/discussions/628#discussioncomment-230640

Another user with this issue: jackdbd/nix-config#7 (comment)
Upstream issue: ActivityWatch/activitywatch#258

Recommended workaround: https://docs.activitywatch.net/en/latest/running-on-gnome.html

System metadata

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 6.12.63, NixOS, 25.11 (Xantusia), 25.11.2793.89dbf01df72e
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.31.2
• channels(root): "home-manager-25.11.tar.gz, nixos-25.11, nixos-hardware, nixos-unstable"
• nixpkgs: /nix/store/lxfwbq8lv7jwsfbqmr28fmj6v4b8hqnb-nixos-25.11/nixos

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