Some system tray icons invisible in Gnome Classic 12.04

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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).

I probably see a mistake here: dconf-editor is for unity. gnome classic probably uses the old gconf so you need gconf-editor (will remove if wrong assumption). — Rinzwind, May 14 '12 at 10:32
This seems to be a bug with Ambiance and Radiance themes. Try Adwaita. — mrwmc, May 20 '12 at 15:24
If this is due to a bug, it would be good to report it as one. — Eliah Kagan, Jun 05 '12 at 08:12
Some related questions: http://askubuntu.com/questions/343788/skype-nofitication-icon-on-gnome-session-fallback-12-04 and http://askubuntu.com/questions/166267/why-doesnt-cryptkeeper-work-in-12-04 — Mark Butler, Jan 16 '14 at 15:47

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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The solution is to add the Notification Area applet. Taken from this question No Banshee notification area icon in Gnome 3 classic session

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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answered Jun 05 '12 at 08:06

vangop

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Thanks Vangop, that solved it. I was under the impression that indicator-applet-complete should handle this. Thanks again. – Shrijit Jun 06 '12 at 12:45
Can you plz mark it as answered then. – vangop Jun 09 '12 at 05:02
Thanks a lot, this also works for the missing tray icon of Shutter. – bfncs Nov 27 '13 at 07:55

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 21 '12 at 21:55

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.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:25

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Have you added the indicator applets to your panel? This might help: I can't add a Indicator Applet to Panel in Gnome-Classic

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:25

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answered May 14 '12 at 13:28

Durand

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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. – Shrijit May 14 '12 at 14:24
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. – Durand May 15 '12 at 18:58

Some system tray icons invisible in Gnome Classic 12.04

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