Skype tray icon disappeared

Asked by Stefano Barale

After upgrading to 11.04 the Skype tray icon is nowhere to be found. Adding and removing notification status and notification area applets to the panel produced no results.

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Stefano Barale (sbarale) said :
#1

killall gnome-panel brings the icon back... until next time.
See here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1745319&highlight=skype+tray+icon

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Stefano Barale (sbarale) said :
#2

Real solution is:

1) open dconf-editor
2) search for desktop > unity > panel
3) modify the value "systray-whitelist" to "all" (small letters)

this, even if the default value includes Skype in the whitelist.

Better solution:

apt-get remove skype && apt-get install some-sip-client-of-your-choice

Ok, I'll stop spamming answers.launchpad...

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Nate Moore (putermd) said :
#3

@Stefano:
I tried your suggestion, and restarted. No change.
I also removed skype and re-installed it.

No dice.

Any more suggestions?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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Nate Moore (putermd) said :
#5

But, with the 'all' setting in the dconf tool, there should be no point in white listing.

As an aside, it appears to be the case that it works fine in the unity style interface, but not so good in the ubuntu-classic interface

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Stefano Barale (sbarale) said :
#6

Nate: you're right. After reboot having ['all'] in the whitelist is not enough.
The "Classic" (eg Gnome) Ubuntu desktop is buggy. The problem that I don't want / I can't switch to Unity just to have this annoying things fixed. And the panel wasn't working fine in 10.10 either...
I'm starting to seriously considering switching back to Debian. At least once is done, is going to work for some time.
Anyway, as a temporary workaround issuing:

killall gnome-panel

brings the Skype Icon back.
Until further notice... :)

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Silas S. Brown (ssb22) said :
#7

On the system that I just upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04, I find it helps to make a shell script like this:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
skype

and put this script into the startup applications, instead of putting Skype into the startup applications directly. There must be some kind of race condition between starting Skype and starting some other desktop component, and adding the 10-second delay to let the other component load first seems to help.

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Artur Yarosh (ayarosh) said :
#8

I have installed the latest Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS and looks like this schema is not works anymore:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['Skype']"

Instead of adding my app to the white list, I get an error:

No such schema 'com.canonical.Unity.Panel'

How to solve this problem in the latest version of Ubuntu?
Thanks.