docs: describe how to install a system tray for Gnome

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Solaar rules is an experimental feature. Significant changes might be made in response to problems.
## System Tray
Solaar's GUI normally uses an icon in the system tray.
This allows users to close Solaar and reopen from the tray.
This aspect of Solaar depends on having an active system tray which may
require some special setup when using Gnome, particularly under Wayland.
If you are running gnome, you most likely need the
`gnome-shell-extension-appindicator` package installed.
In Fedora, this can be done by running
```
sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-appindicator
```
The likely command in Ubuntu and related distributions is
```
sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-appindicator
```
You may have to log out and log in again before the system tray shows up.
## Battery Icons
For many devices, Solaar shows the approximate battery level via icons that

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Solaar's GUI normally uses an icon in the system tray and starts with its main window visible.
The GUI can be started in several ways
This aspect of Solaar depends on having an active system tray, which is not the default
situation for recent versions of Gnome. For information on to set up a system Gnome see
[the capabilities page](https://pwr-solaar.github.io/Solaar/capabilities).
Solaar's GUI can be started in several ways
- `--window=show` (the default) starts with its main window visible,
- `--window=hide` starts with its main window hidden,