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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 5 '11 at 16:02
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@Jorge What is a whitelist question? – Andrew Redd May 5 '11 at 16:10
See here (basically the same thing binarylife says): askubuntu.com/questions/30742/… – Jorge Castro May 5 '11 at 16:12
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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']"
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'all' was the only thing that worked. – Andrew Redd May 5 '11 at 17:15
Whitelisting "blueproximity" doesn't work and I don't want to whitelist all applications. Any other ideas? – Alin Andrei May 24 '11 at 9:22
@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
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