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Hide xchat-gnome, instead of closing it

I've just installed xchat-gnome on Ubuntu 12.04. It works fine and integrates well with the messaging area of the notifications bar. However, I have not fond a way to make the xchat window go away ...
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twitter app in messaging menu

I've installed friends-app in my Ubuntu 13.04 but I can't see any twitter app icon under messaging menu. How can I get twitter app icon in messaging menu in Ubuntu 13.04?
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[Solved]Messaging menu's status switch grayed out [closed]

I'm using empathy for IM (mostly Facebook). After having some issues with Facebook messaging, I used apt-get purge empathy and then apt-get install empathy It reinstalled successfully but ...
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Gmail notification on Ubuntu 13.04

I'm upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 and then to 13.04. In 12.04 I was usage with gm-notify to alert me when a message is coming in the messaging menu. In 13.04 its not shown in the messaging menu. There ...
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GMail app in Ubuntu 13.04

I'm confused about what application that installs the GMail icon in the Message menu (see link to picture). I'm developing my own GMail notification app, so I want to get rid of it. Can anyone ...
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Pidgin messages remain in messaging menu/indicator even after read

I upgraded to 13.04 this past weekend. I primarily use thunderbird and pidgin rather than empathy and/or evolution. Prior to the upgrade, thunderbird integrated into the messaging menu properly but ...
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Messaging menu in 13.04 missing

I've just updated to 13.04 this weekend (a clean install via USB stick, as I usually do) and since then I cannot find the Messaging Menu working properly as it did before. It doesn't integrate with ...
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Thunderbird Missing from Messaging menu & Dash

I no longer need this issue solved as I have replaced Ubuntu with a different OS (nothing wrong with Ubuntu, just fancied a change). I reinstalled Ubuntu into a virtual machine and thunderbird began ...
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Evolution unread message count on messaging menu

I remember in earlier versions of Ubuntu, I used be able to see the evolution unread messages count under the messaging menu along with the unread twitter and unread instance messages. It seems to ...
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gi.repository/Python3 example for Indicate?

Is there a gi.repository (and Python 3) example for Indicate? I am having trouble following the example at Ubuntu App Developer. Specifically if I do: from gi.repository import Indicate mm = ...
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No blue envelope when using filters on Thunderbird

I'm having the following issue with Thunderbird 17.0.2 under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (fresh install and full updated): When I receive a new e-mail on any inbox (no filters) everything is nice, sounds a ...
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gm-notify and pidgin don't autostart

I quite recently upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04 so I'm still adjusting to the switch from gnome to unity. One new thing is the way I get notifications from gmail and pidgin. I've got it working so that ...
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Empathy doesn't integrate with Messaging Menu?

Even if Empathy is running, it doesn't have a grey arrow in the Messaging Menu. Chat statuses (Available, busy, etc.) also don't work in the menu and are stuck to "Offline". I use 12.10 Quantal ...
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Can I rearrange the messaging menu list?

This is my current messaging menu layout in Ubuntu 12.10: I was wondering is there a way to change the list? I would rather have Thunderbird moved to the bottom. I tried uninstalling Thunderbird, ...
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How to change messaging menu's indicator icon? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I change the color of the indicator applet to green? How to change the recent notifications indicator icon ? I do not really like the default icon which turns ...
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Lightread in the message menu

I was wondering if it were possible to put light read into the messaging menu, I have tried to create the file to place it there but it didn't work. I was wondering how to get Lightread to show up in ...
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How to add applications to the messaging indicator in Ubuntu 12.10?

I would like to add applications as Lightread or Polly to the message Indicator. How can I do this? The only information I found does not support Ubuntu 12.10
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How to reinstall Messaging Menu in 12.10

My Messaging menu start to behave strange recently. Statuses don't work - can't change my status in both Empathy and Skype. Doesn't show messages from Skype in the menu and others. How to completely ...
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Stop messaging icon from turning blue for gwibber updates [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Don’t show gwibber messages in indicator applet Having the messaging icon turn blue for new IM messages or even twitter mentions or replies is useful, but to have it ...
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Messaging menu turn blue for no reason

I expect the "envelope" from the messaging menu to turn blue only where there is a pending notification (like a new mail or a new IM message). When I click it, I usually see from which app the ...
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How to enable/disable items in the Messaging Menu?

Back in 12.04,, all items that had messaging menu integration are shown in the messaging menu. However, in 12.10, this isn't the case. 3rd party items aren't showing up in the Messaging Menu. Well, at ...
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How to enable online status in the messaging indicator without an online account?

When you don't want to add an online account in 12.10, the global online status is not present in the messaging indicator applet. Nevertheless, I would like to use the global online status switcher ...
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How do I remove the Twitter icon from indicator-messages?

Ubuntu 12.10 When I click Envelope (indicator-messages) the icons for Twitter, Майл.ру, Google+ and Unity-mail are appears. 1) Problem I need only Unity-mail linked with my Google-mail account, but I ...
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How can i remove entries from the messaging menu in 12.10? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Remove “Set Up Mail” and other entries from the message indicator? In previous Ubuntu versions i could add a .desktop file in ...
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Don't show gwibber messages in indicator applet

Gwibber turns the indicator-applet-icon blue, each time a new tweet appears in my timeline, which is always. It is therefore no longer usefull as a "there is a new message for you" resulting in many ...
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How to integrate Pidgin and Evolution into the message indicator?

I upgraded to 12.10, I was using Unity 2d, but as it no longer exists I moved to gnome classic, something in the upgrade seems to have change the message indicator in the "Indicator Applet Complete". ...
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Where is the messaging menu in 12.10? [closed]

All of a sudden, after the volume slider disappeared, now the messaging menu has disappeared too! after the last update, now the messaging menu does not show anything written! here is a screenshot- ...
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Empathy not showing in messageing menu

I just installed 12.10 and noticed that, even if I added more than one account to Online Accounts and I'm actually using empathy to chat, it is not present in Messaging Menu or in any other point of ...
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Messaging menu integration for Thunderbird does not work in Ubuntu 12.10 anymore

Since I have updated to 12.10 the Messaging menu integration for Thunderbird does not work anymore. What am I supposed to do? Does anybody else has experienced this problem? Which components are ...
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Contents of messaging menu invisible

I'm running Quantal, and I decided to turn off Gwibber and Empathy at startup, and now all the menu items have disappeared. I can see the odd arrow, but that's it. I turned on everything that I turned ...
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Losing messaging menu after update to 12.10

i use ubuntu for a years without format . and i tryied to update to and 12.10 losted my massege menu . Thanks for help how can i get back ? 12.10 hp dv6-2160et
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Message indicator for liferea missing in Ubuntu 12.10?

How do I get back How to get back message indicator for liferea in Ubuntu 12.10?
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Messaging Menu missing after upgrade to 12.10

Upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 today, and the messaging menu is missing. Might be because the only application that I use with the messaging menu is Pidgin. Is this an issue where pidgin has not been ...
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How To keep web apps running in messaging menu?

Ubuntu 12.10 introduced all sort of web apps, and some of them get added to the messaging menu. My question however is the following. These web apps must remain open in a tab, for the messaging menu ...
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How do I add the messaging menu to the xfce-panel?

I am running a pretty peculiar setup right now with LXDE, plank and the XFCE4-panel. This works fine, but I can't seem to find the messaging menu under the system tray options: Is there any service ...
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How to remove (or hide) Chat Status Icons from Messaging Menu

I would know how to remove or hide in Ubuntu 12.04 the Chat Status section (available, away, busy, invisible and offline) from Messaging Menu as I am not using any instant messenger. I do not want to ...
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Mail menu is empty after upgrade to ubuntu 12.04 [closed]

After upgrading to ubuntu 12.04, session menu and user menu were missing and the mail menu was empty. I followed the directions in this thread and the session and user menus appeared. But the mail ...
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Programmatically detect presence changes in Messaging menu

Is there a way to subscribe to messaging menu events? Specifically, I'm looking for a signal (over DBus?) that is fired when the online presence status changes in the messaging menu
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Messaging indicator does not obey applications-blacklist

Since upgrading from 11.10 to 12.04, the microblogging and instant messaging entries have reappeared in the messaging menu. I put symlinks in ~/.config/indicators/messages/applications-blacklist to ...
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Python/GTK3 app crashing on importing “indicate” (python-indicate)

I'm trying to integrate my Python/GTK3 app with Ubuntu's messaging menu and every time I try to import "indicate" (python-indicate) my app crashes, with the following traceback: ...
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How can I remove the default indicators and add custom ones?

I am trying to use the old Ubuntu feature of adding/removing indicators from the top panel in 11.10/12.04, but cannot do so. I have these questions: How can I remove or add indicator applet at top ...
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Missing panel icons at top right

I have been using 11.10 for a month or two, and I always had these icons at the top right (mail/messenger, battery state, volume control): After upgrading to 12.04, I lost all of these tray entries ...
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What third party indicators tie up with messaging menu indicators [closed]

Can u suggest some third party indicators that tie up with messaging menu indicators i.e instead of having another indicator icon it shows in messaging emnu itself
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Polly Messaging Menu

First, sorry for my bad english. I "updated" my pc from 11.10 to 12.04 (clean install). After the installation of Polly Twitter Client (0.93.4-0~precise1, the latest from Launchpad), its entries are ...
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Why won't Thunderbird report notifications to the indicator-applet on 12.04?

Just upgraded to 12.04 from 11.04, using the default Unity desktop. I don't seem to be getting anything from the Messaging indicator applet. I'm running all the default things that I installed this ...
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How to show unread count on Messaging Menu?

Is there a way to show unread count on Messaging Menu icon, without opening it? I'm using Ubuntu 11.04.
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Thunderbird extension Messaganing Menu and Unity Launcher Integration stopped working

After I restarted my laptop, the Thunderbird extension stopped working and I can't seem to get it working again. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
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How can I remove the messaging menu in 11.10? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to remove the Mail icon indicator applet? I never use it, never have and never will. So, like any unwanted, unnecessary or superfluous software on my computer I'd ...
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How do I/is it possible to remove the Broadcast option from the messaging indicator?

I would like to remove an applet from the GNOME panel/indicator applet (the Gwibber/broadcasting applet, to be precise) in Unity mode. Is this possible? If so, would any techniques also apply to ...
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How can I assign a keyboard shortcut to the 'clear' option in the messaging menu?

Say I get a new email, I get a notify osd message indicating subject and sender, and the messaging menu envelope turns blue. To clear the blue indicator, I usually click on the blue envelope, and ...

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