Profile icon not shown, even with 2 profiles created

Hello. I have 2 profiles and the profile icon has its space on upper right but it is not shown (the space it’s empty and i can click there and nothing happens). I can make it appear using Ctrl+Shift+m. Is it just like that or it’s a bug? If the first option is right is there a way to make it stay always on?

Description of the issue:
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Create a second profile

  2. The profile icon at the upper right is not shown on both profiles (without pressing the buttons combination)

Expected result:

the profile icon is always shown

Brave Version( check About Brave):

1.82.172

Additional Information:

OS: Linux (PCLinuxOS)

@Chuck can you try updating and see if it resolves? The current version of Brave is 1.83.109

Doesn’t work anyway. I manually updated brave downloading it from github since my distribution gives the 1.82.172 as the latest. I tried temporally removing BraveSoftware too from .config folder to reset Brave and i tried creating a second profile, the icon doesn’t show without using the hotkeys.

@Chuck I guess I’m trying to think. I’m not too familiar with Linux in general. I just was relying on AI to help me think and I know it mentioned your PCLinuxOS would not typically use Debian/Ubuntu style “.deb + apt” methods or Fedora/RHEL style “yum/dnf + .rpm” directly

So I guess let me first ask, how did you install Brave? Did you use any of the methods shared at https://brave.com/linux/ ?

@Mattches figured I’d tag you in the interim. Any ideas?

I used Synaptic Package Manager, PCLinuxOS uses rpm and apt. I replaced the brave folder in /opt/brave.com to test the 1.83.109 version (that version was reported in brave info).

This bug has been around for a while. I found that it was being triggered by increasing the global font size in KDE’s System Settings:

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/47348#issuecomment-3074316759

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@Saoiray @siliconforks i confirm that setting font size to 10 in KDE system settings makes the profile icon reappear. I’m using KDE 6.

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@Saoiray @siliconforks sorry to bother you but do you know if a fix is planned to be released?

@Chuck the GitHub thread linked earlier shows a +1 from Mattches. I do not see a priority label or an assignee yet, so it likely still needs triage.

Have you or @siliconforks tested this in Chrome? If it reproduces there, it is probably an upstream Chromium issue and would need a fix there first. If it is Brave specific, it will go into their queue. They still are working with a fairly small dev team overall, so higher impact items may take precedence, but this should still be on their radar.

the profile icon in chrome is always present for me. Chrome version in my distribution is 140.0.7339.207.

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