Some system tray icons invisible in Gnome Classic 12.04
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Solution 1
The solution is to add the Notification Area
applet.
Taken from this question No Banshee notification area icon in Gnome 3 classic session
Solution 2
I have just solved this problem with davMail on xubuntu using the following method:-
- Open the task manager and if davmail is running, kill it.
- Open a terminal and type
sudo apt-get install libswt-gtk
. - Re-start DavMail and you should see the icon in the notification area.
It took me along time to find the solution, but it is quick and simple to do.
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Shrijit
A Linux advocate using Ubuntu for the past 5 years. Currently on Ubuntu 12.04 on a Lenovo Thinkpad W510.
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Shrijit over 1 year
Tried all possible ways to give visibility to tray icons in Ubuntu 12.04 but no luck :(
- Dconf-editor -> Navigate to Desktop -> Unity -> Panel -> change the value of systray-whitelist to "all"
- gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"
- Set values of above to include pidgin, davmail, etc.
Please note that only some tray icons are invisible. I still cant see pidgin, davmail, guake tray icons. I am on Ubuntu 12.04 Gnome classic mode (gnome-session-fallback).
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Shrijit about 12 yearsYes, like in one of the comment in the link you mentioned, in 12.04, it is used by default in gnome-session-fallback. I have many tray icons, but there are some which do not seem to be visible like Pidgin, Davmail, etc.
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Durand about 12 yearsWith pidgin, you can go to the preferences and set Show tray icon to Always. I guess the other apps have similar settings as they would otherwise use the indicator applets.
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Shrijit almost 12 yearsThanks Vangop, that solved it. I was under the impression that indicator-applet-complete should handle this. Thanks again.
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vangop almost 12 yearsCan you plz mark it as answered then.
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bfncs over 10 yearsThanks a lot, this also works for the missing tray icon of Shutter.