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I installed WICD and it works fine, but the tray icon doesn't show. I've tried with wicd-client but only a notification shows up.

root@prat-VGN-NR21M-S:~# wicd-client
Has notifications support True
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Loading...
Connecting to daemon...
Connected.
displaytray True
Done loading.

In addition, under Kubuntu session the tray icon shows normally.

Thanks in advance.

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  • >>For Ubuntu 12.04 use ['All'] in desktop ➜ unity ➜ panel (delete all others) >> >>worked for me :) me2 thanks! bcm4321, bw43 driver. with off-the-dvd 12.04 32bit install, network-manager and iwlist were showing the available (visible) network list inconsistently, and rarely.
    – user195603
    Sep 24, 2013 at 5:28

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  1. Install the dconf-toolsInstall dconf-tools package and then open dconf-editor:

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  2. Navigate to desktop ➜ unity ➜ panel and add Wicd to systray-whitelist :

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  3. Log out and then back in. You should see the wicd icon the panel:

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    every day we have these questions. unity needs redesign, hiding stuff is really nonsense for me.
    – c0de
    Jan 2, 2012 at 22:31
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    This answer did not work on 11.10 Unity. dconf changes are discarded and the default is used after logoff/logon
    – keepitsimpleengineer
    Jan 6, 2012 at 0:42
  • Anyone know if 12.04 is different?
    – Tarrasch
    Aug 22, 2012 at 21:39
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    This method does not seem to work on 13.10. How unfortunate. It could be that there is something to it in the startup applications. For example changing the WCID entry to wcid-gtk to wcid-client --no-tray. :/
    – Zlatty
    Feb 9, 2014 at 23:26
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    This method does not work for Ubuntu 14.04 and upwards. Ubuntu removed the whitelist option from dconf.
    – Babbzzz
    May 15, 2015 at 7:28
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For Ubuntu 12.04 use ['All'] in desktop ➜ unity ➜ panel (delete all others)

worked for me :)

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  • are your instructions to be performed in dconf-tools package, you're not very clear...
    – Abraham Murciano Benzadon
    May 11, 2017 at 14:38
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For Ubuntu 14.10, following the instructions here will get the WICD icon in the top panel.

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For Ubuntu 11.10 , this article gives a solution for 11.10. Cant try it now, though.

wget http://www.pc-freak.net/files/add-wicd-to-whitelist.sh
sh add-wicd-to-whitelist.sh

And the code of the script

#!/bin/bash

TEMPFILE="/tmp/whitelist.temp"

rm -f $TEMPFILE
gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist | head -c -2 > $TEMPFILE
echo -n ", 'Wicd']" >> $TEMPFILE
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "`cat $TEMPFILE`"
rm -f $TEMPFILE

A restart (login/out) is required, too.

The script should do the same thing that the proposed solution above does...

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    The script indeed does the same thing, it adds Wicd to the white-list. But there is still no 'Wicd; icon in the system notification area.
    – keepitsimpleengineer
    Jan 16, 2012 at 18:41

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