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Do you know any birthday reminder alternative to GBirthday?

I use the very useful and small birthday (and more) reminder tool Gbirthday a lot (http://gbirthday.sourceforge.net) , but it seems not to work with Unity. Is there a way to tweak this, so Gbirthday works in Ubuntu with Unity? Normally there would be a small icon in the panel, but I guess Unity does not like "foreign" items in the panel.

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Thanks for the attention, brunopereira81, Jorge Castro and Marco Ceppi, but this is not a duplicate to askubuntu.com/questions/72145/…. I intentionally posted two different questions, to get different answers: First how to make gbirthday work with Unity, secondly are there any alternatives to gbirthday. Aren't these two different questions? Please open this question again, thanks. – Filubuntu Oct 27 '11 at 0:14
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closed as exact duplicate by Bruno Pereira♦, Jorge Castro, Marco Ceppi♦ Oct 26 '11 at 14:41

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You can make any program that used to use the old notification system in Gnome 2.0 (the panel before Unity) show up in the new panel in 11.04 and 11.10 by whitelisting it. There are directions in this blog post:

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/how-to-re-enable-notification-area.html

If you don't like the command line, skip down to section B in the instructions (B. Using a GUI).

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Thanks for the speedy answer! It sounds like a very elegant solution. But somehow it does not work with me. Not sure what I do wrongly. The icons of GBirthday and StarDict don't show. I tried it with command line and dconf, logout and restarted several times (although only in a virtualbox). Do I have to activate the notification area (systray?)? – Filubuntu Oct 26 '11 at 10:34
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In the meantime I found another solution, not as elegant as the above:

If there is a Gnome Panel applet that you absolutely must use and it isn't feasible to get an indicator to replace it, then this might be a workaround: Install xfce4-panel (see Can I use GNOME applets in Unity?)

Then I added xcfe4-panel and gbirthday to the startup applications. After restart: I chose to get an empty panel, added the notification area to the panel and set it to Auto-hide. Afterwards arranged the panel in such a way as to not bother other parts of your system, i.e in the lower-right corner. This worked for me although I hope the workaround from Omegamormegil will for me as well.

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