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Question relating to the Messaging Menu which provides quick access to global messaging status and messaging applications from the Ubuntu Panel.

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No connection between Online Accounts and Pidgin?

Running Ubuntu Gnome 17.04. I have added my Google account in the Online Accounts. It is enabled for chat. Yet when I start Pidgin for chatting, it keeps asking me to add an account. Am I doing ...
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Get status of MessagingMenu

Is there a method (using dbus or something else, I would prefer bash/python), to check if the status of the messaging indicator (the one that gets blue if a new message arrives) is currently "...
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An error occurs when I start my system

How can I locate this error in Ubuntu, what can be due, how can I repair it? I try to follow this post PackageManagerTroubleshootingProcedure for the solution of the problem but I do not have success. ...
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Edit the messaging menu at the top bar

Is it possible to change the position of the Thunderbird submenu to place it at the top of the messaging menu ? Thanks
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Geary stuck on messaging menu after uninstallation

I uninstalled Geary but for some reason it still shows in the Messaging Menu with a "No" symbol as an icon. I tried restarting. Under /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications there are only ...
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Put Skype in messaging menu of unity panel?

I have Thunderbird and Pidgin that run in the Messaging Menu and are nicely integrated. But running Skype give it its own icon on the Unity Panel. How can I move it into the Messaging Menu? Can these ...
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Email icon (messaging menu) in Ubuntu 16.04

I have Ubuntu 16.04 installed and Mailnag to check my Gmail account. With Ubuntu 14.10 I had a email icon (messaging menu, provided by indicator-messages package, that I currently have installed) ...
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Email notifier that supports Online accounts, notifications, Messaging Menu

Is there an email notifier application that: can be found in the Ubuntu repositories (not in a PPA), is integrated with the Online Accounts in Unity, shows notifications in message bubbles in the top ...
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Email icons missing from the Panel after upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04

I have recently upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04 and then noticed the usual email icon (little envelope icon) which allowed me to run my Evolution, chat and Thunderbird applications is no longer available....
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What's the 'envelope' icon in the top panel and do I need it?

After a default Ubuntu 12.04 install on a new system, there always seems to be some 'Envelope' icon on the menu bar at the top. If I click it, a menu appears with Available, Away, Busy, Offline etc. ...
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How to remove an entry from messaging menu in C

I wrote a simple C program to create a entry in messaging menu.code is shown below. #include <messaging-menu.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { MessagingMenuApp *mmp=...
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Does geary have a command flag to compose new email?

I'm trying to update message menu indicator and i want to import some geary funtions as well, does geary have any flags similar to Thunderbird (--compose)? I tried geary --? but didn't find any ...
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Empty messaging menu in Ubuntu 13.10

After a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.10, I see that there isn't any item in the Messaging menu on panel. only "available, busy..." the status options. I've discovered that in new versions of Ubuntu, ...
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How do I add the messaging menu to the xfce-panel 4.10?

The following answer doesn't work for me: How do I add the messaging menu to the xfce-panel? In a fresh 12.04 xubuntu installation (xfce 4.8) I can see the icon for messaging-menu, but in my 13.10 (...
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How to remove chat icons from messaging menu in 13.10 saucy [duplicate]

Upgrading from 13.04, the chat items (Available,Away,Busy,Invisible,Offline) re-appeared in the messaging-menu. I use Pidgin for chat, the icons do not reflect pidgin status changes. For Thunderbird I ...
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How can one go about integrating messaging into an Ubuntu Touch App?

Hi I am wondering what is the best way to integrate a "Sharing" feature into an app built for Ubuntu Touch (as well as the desktop). I am wondering if there is some sort of documentation available (...
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dconf editor message entry missing

I tried to rearrange my messaging menu in Ubuntu 12.04 following this answer https://askubuntu.com/a/269231/170356 . But in my dconf-editor is no such entry "…messages". The command dconf list /com/...
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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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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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Messaging menu in 13.04 missing

I've just updated to 13.04 this weekend. It was a clean install. Since then I cannot find the Messaging Menu working properly as before. It doesn't integrate with online accounts and shows only the ...
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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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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 into a ...
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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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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 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 ~/.config/applications/indicators/messages/...
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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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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 I ...
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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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How do I programmatically detect presence changes in the 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: /usr/lib/python2.7/...
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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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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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