unity does not show systray icons

This is high priority for me, because Skype isn't integrated into anywhere else so I have to use it from the systray.

Unity is now showing some systray icons, but nothing for skype. It is showing an enormous Pidgin icon and a blank black area.

Perhaps my gsettings are borked, because skype is no longer showing up in my natty systray either. (natty and oneiric are sharing a common home folder.) And dconf-editor can't see the key com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist, although gsettings can.

Just to correct my previous statement: dconf-editor can see systray-whitelist and it has 'Skype' listed. It's in desktop/unity/panel and of course the schema is com.canonical.Unity.Panel. Nevertheless, neither Natty nor Oneiric show the skype icon anymore in the systray.

The skype icon is now back, along with a grossly-oversized pidgin icon and an extra systray battery indicator icon. I've no idea what changed, except that I changed systray-whitelist to ['all'] about three reboots ago.

wait for unity 4.14.0 to release and come to you and let us know if
the issue is still there.

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Rocko <email address hidden> wrote:
> The skype icon is now back, along with a grossly-oversized pidgin icon
> and an extra systray battery indicator icon. I've no idea what changed,
> except that I changed systray-whitelist to ['all'] about three reboots
> ago.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/842337
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> Title:
>  unity does not show systray icons
>
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  Unity doesn't show *any* sys tray icons any more, not even after a
>  full system reboot (so this isn't bug #783908). Also the battery power
>  indicator no longer shows, although there seems to be a small gap left
>  for it between the mail and sound indicators.
>
>  'gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist' show
>  "['skype', 'pidgin', 'Pidgin', 'Skype']".
>
>  Adding 'all' to the list doesn't help, either.
>
>  The only thing I recall doing recently other than applying updates is
>  to remove everything related to evolution, except for evolution-data-
>  server-common, because indicator-datetime depends on it.
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
>  Package: unity 4.12.0-0ubuntu2
>  Uname: Linux 3.1.0-rc5-git-20110905.0929 x86_64
>  Architecture: amd64
>  CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,imgjpeg,decor,vpswitch,text,place,move,mousepoll,regex,compiztoolbox,snap,session,gnomecompat,resize,wall,imgpng,grid,animation,unitymtgrabhandles,expo,ezoom,staticswitcher,workarounds,fade,scale,scaleaddon,unityshell]
>  Date: Tue Sep  6 12:36:32 2011
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
>  SourcePackage: unity
>  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-06 (0 days ago)
>
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4.14 doesn't fix it: the skype icon sometimes appears, and sometimes doesn't appear, just like before. The pidgin icon usually appears now but is still oversized.

FWIW, unity-2d doesn't show systray icons either. I logged this as a separate bug, #847525, assuming that it is a different app that renders the unity-2d bar.

except for skype is there any other app whose icon hide in systray? the huge icons is another bug 839354

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Expired for unity because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

In my case, the Skype icon shows, and there's only a space between the skype one and dropbox's one. The one in the middle should be pidgin's, and it's there but invisible. I can click on it and interact.

Transmission-gtk is shown as well.

my whitelist setting via dconf includes Skype and Pidgin.

In my case Skype shows for a while (after a few minutes of inactivity the icon dissapear). The same happend with Dropbox. Pidgin never shows. Transmission seems to work ok.
my whitelist is set to all.

When I upgraded to Oneiric, upon first reboot I automatically chose the unity 2d desktop, not the default.
I set the whitelist to 'All'. Just a couple icons appeared, but not, for instance, pidgin.

The other day I wanted to check out the default desktop environment, and there it is: my pidgin systray icon.

So, maybe there's some gl thing going on here or what?