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The space where individual program icons or system icons are used as status indicators, notifying the user of changes and allowing quick access to key functions of the program/system tool.

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"no system tray detected on this system."

"no system tray detected on this system." Appears starting Gnome and Cinnamon in Oneiric 11.10; starting with Gnome Classic and Unity no problem at all. How to solve?
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how to make `alltray` work on ubuntu 16.04?

alltray has an excellent option that gives us great customizability: --menu; -m: "menu text:command": add entry to popdown menu just to run test it I am using tho ex.: alltray xev it is installable on ubuntu 16.04. using kwin it will fail with…
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How do I get a list of the active icons present in the system tray?

How can I get a list of Active Icons that are in the system Tray programmatically?
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How to display a system tray icon in Ubuntu 20.04+?

I write an application for myself and want to display a system tray icon - at the top right - in it. Is there a library I can use? The application is in .NET core, so any library that can be easily invoked from there would be preferred. I already…
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Error: Invalid interface to SNW_SERVICE

I am attempting to run Rescuetime on ubuntu 16.04 and getting the following error: "sni-qt/17399" WARN 17:25:14.323 void StatusNotifierItemFactory::connectToSnw() Invalid interface to SNW_SERVICE No systemtrayicon available (rescuetime:17399):…
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Wifi icon not showing signal strength Ubuntu 14.04?

The wifi icon in my system tray is just an outline. It doesn't actually show any bars/signal strength. I've tried using... sudo apt-get install indicator-applet indicator-network But that didn't work. Any suggestions on how I can fix this? Note:…
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How to scale indicator icons

Anyone knows if Unity has a way to scale down all indicator icons to have the same height? This big icons are very annoying. EXAMPLE:
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So how can I check if a progam is running?

Possible Duplicate: How do we found running programs that are not visible? I have installed 64 bits Bitdefender on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit. After updating the virusdefinitions I clicked on the 'hide' button. Now I am wondering if Bitdefender is…
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Can I remove appindicator from systemtray?

I'm running Ubuntu 16.10, and every time I start up I get an app-indicator in systemtray that I don't know what is. It appears in guestsession as well. It's the one right left of the wifi symbol: When I pres it, it produces a kind of blank black…
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Tixati tray icon is not displaying

I'm on Ubuntu 15.10, I have installed tixati torrent client but I cannot manage to display in the tray icon ( it is the default behavior)
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Ban icons from systray

I have an application, which has a systray-icon. I want to make the icon disappear, without uninstalling the app. It should still keep on running in the background. Thanks for your help. kl
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Quod Libet tray icon missing in Ubuntu 13.04

After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04, the tray icon for Quod Libet is missing. How can I get it back?
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How do I display the current local temp.?

Possible Duplicate: Is there a weather indicator? Before I updated to 12.04, right next to the clock it used to display my current local outdoor temp. Is there a way to get that back? I found it to be very useful. Thank you.
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systray disappeared

running ubuntu 12.04 - all well after installation - looking for some options in compiz do organize expo and other desktop stuff, now systray-panel (= program-menus cant be shown and icons unvisible and no logoff,...) is not drawn at the top of…
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Left button click on tray icons open context menu instead of opening the app

Every time I left click the tray icon of an app, it opens the context menu instead of opening the app itself. I'm using Ubuntu in a virtual machine since I faced this issue on Ubuntu Budgie, I wanted to be sure it's not Budgie related. It seems to…
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