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:-

  1. Open the task manager and if davmail is running, kill it.
  2. Open a terminal and type sudo apt-get install libswt-gtk.
  3. 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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A Linux advocate using Ubuntu for the past 5 years. Currently on Ubuntu 12.04 on a Lenovo Thinkpad W510.

Updated on September 18, 2022

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  • Shrijit
    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).

  • Shrijit
    Shrijit about 12 years
    Yes, 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.
  • Durand
    Durand about 12 years
    With 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.
  • Shrijit
    Shrijit almost 12 years
    Thanks Vangop, that solved it. I was under the impression that indicator-applet-complete should handle this. Thanks again.
  • vangop
    vangop almost 12 years
    Can you plz mark it as answered then.
  • bfncs
    bfncs over 10 years
    Thanks a lot, this also works for the missing tray icon of Shutter.