Gbirthday - Is there a way to let it work with Unity

Question

As a follow-up to this question, the very useful and small birthday (and more) reminder tool Gbirthday does not seem not work with Unity. Is there a way to tweak this, so Gbirthday works in Ubuntu with Unity?

Normally there would be a small icon in the panel, but I guess Unity does not like "foreign" items in the panel.

Solution

You can make any program that used to use the old notification system in Gnome 2.0 (the panel before Unity) show up in the new panel in 11.04 and 11.10 by whitelisting it. There are directions in this blog post:

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/how-to-re-enable-notification-area.html

If you don't like the command line, skip down to section B in the instructions (B. Using a GUI).

Comments

[Filbuntu]

@Bruno Pereira Thanks for the attention, but this is not a duplicate. I intentionally posted two different questions, to get different answers: First how to make gbirthday work with Unity, secondly are there any alternatives to gbirthday. Aren't these two different questions? Please open this question again, thanks in advance.

[Fabby]

VTR: 2 separate questions by same user referencing the other now...

[Filbuntu]

@Omegamomegil Now it works on my computer as well, although only partially. The list of birthdays is not complete in the pop-up window. It only shows one entry per day, even if there are several, but this a gbirthday problem. And better than nothing.