I just upgraded to Natty and am getting used to the new interface. I depend on blue proximity for locking my desktop when I leave my office. After upgrade I no longer see the icon in the panel area. I tested and It is working but I have no idea how to configure it now. How do I get the icon back and configure it?
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(To whoever tries to answer this, this looks like a whitelist question) – Jorge Castro May 05 '11 at 16:02
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1@Jorge What is a whitelist question? – Andrew Redd May 05 '11 at 16:10
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See here (basically the same thing binarylife says): http://askubuntu.com/questions/30742/how-do-i-access-and-enable-more-icons-to-be-in-the-system-tray – Jorge Castro May 05 '11 at 16:12
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The accepted answer will not work for version 13.04 and newer, because that whitelist was removed from Ubuntu.
However there is a patch for blueproximity to make it work with unity's app indicator.
You can apply the patch as follows:
wget http://sourceforge.net/p/blueproximity/patches/_discuss/thread/3d5eb592/7e50/attachment/proximity.patch
sudo patch /usr/share/blueproximity/proximity.py < proximity.patch
sudo apt-get install python-appindicator
That works in 13.10 and 14.04. Haven't tested other versions. I see no reason why wouldn't work in other versions though. I would also recommend this over the whitelist solution.
Hopefully that patch will be integrated into newer version of blue proximity.
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Your problem is that the program doesn't show up in the notification area. Ubuntu natty has a whitelist for only some programs to show up. But there's an easy way to either re-enable the Systray for all applications or to whitelist a few applications you can't live without.
To enable the Notification Area (Systray) for all applications, run the following command in a terminal:
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"
You can only whitelist a certain application if you want, by using the following command:
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'hp-systray', 'YOUR_APPLICATION']"
The above command includes the already whitelisted (by default) applications so you should replace "YOUR_APPLICATION" with the application you want to whitelist.
For blueproximity:
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'hp-systray', 'proximity']"
In Ubuntu 13.04 the systray-whitelist hard-coded so the above configuration change no longer works. Use this https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/974480/comments/42 ppa and follow the instructions to enable the whitelist and set it to "['all']"
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Whitelisting "blueproximity" doesn't work and I don't want to whitelist all applications. Any other ideas? – Alin Andrei May 24 '11 at 09:22
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@Alin Andrei: Yes There was an error in the code;
'blueproximity'should be replaced with'proximity'. Thanks for reminding me to fix this:). – Binarylife May 24 '11 at 15:12