Spotify in Mint 17.3

oba123 · Post by **oba123** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 6:57 pm

I noticed a minor annoyance when launching Spotify after upgrading Mint Cinnamon from 17.2 to 17.3.

When starting the application, the window appears and I can interact with it but there is no entry in the panel. If I minimize the application, it will continue to run but the window is obviously gone and there is no way to restore it without an entry in the panel. I discovered a workaround which is (after first starting Spotify) to move the window to another workspace. Doing this will cause the entry to appear in the panel and it can be used normally.

Is anybody else affected by this issue?

oba123 · Post by **oba123** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 7:10 pm

Just found out that this was caused by having the setting "Show window thumbnails on hover" enabled in the Window list applet. This is the default setting with Cinnamon 2.8 but it appears to cause a slight issue with Spotify.

I disabled it and it's working normally again.

saturnfreeway · Post by **saturnfreeway** » Fri Dec 11, 2015 11:50 am

Thanks! That solved the issue for me.

Used alt-tab as a workaround, but this is so much better.

cogier · Post by **cogier** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:28 am

What version on Spotify are using, Windows Spotify using Wine or the Linux Preview?

I am using the Linux Preview with 17.3 Cinnamon and I have not had any issues.
See here http://www.cogier.com/gambas/spotify.png

axel668 · Post by **axel668** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 11:41 am

I'm using the Spotify 1.x Beta version from the Spotify community blog, it doesn't have this issue and runs much smoother overall -
check https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotif ... -p/1147084 for details.

cogier · Post by **cogier** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 12:26 pm

Interesting! I think I'll stick with the stable release for now.

oba123 · Post by **oba123** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:11 am

axel668 wrote:I'm using the Spotify 1.x Beta version from the Spotify community blog, it doesn't have this issue and runs much smoother overall -
check https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotif ... -p/1147084 for details.

I'm also using that version. Its at version 1.0.19.106.gb8a7150f now. Can I ask if you did an upgrade or was it a clean install?

axel668 · Post by **axel668** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 8:03 am

Did a clean Mint install recently (coming back from Manjaro Cinnamon Edition),
but I think I ran the "old" 0.9 Spotify one or two times before switching over the Beta PPA,
so Spotify- wise it was an update

j03k3rr · Post by **j03k3rr** » Tue Dec 22, 2015 7:05 am

I have the same problem and I don't have option as featured
http://linuxmint.com/pictures/screensho ... _sound.png

What should I do?
Spotify version 0.9.17.8

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