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Tried all possible ways to give visibility to tray icons in Ubuntu 12.04 but no luck :(

  • Dconf-editor -> Navigate to Desktop -> Unity -> Panel -> change the value of systray-whitelist to "all"
  • gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"
  • Set values of above to include pidgin, davmail, etc.

Please note that only some tray icons are invisible. I still cant see pidgin, davmail, guake tray icons. I am on Ubuntu 12.04 Gnome classic mode (gnome-session-fallback).

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The solution is to add the Notification Area applet. Taken from this question No Banshee notification area icon in Gnome 3 classic session

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  • Thanks Vangop, that solved it. I was under the impression that indicator-applet-complete should handle this. Thanks again.
    – Shrijit
    Jun 6, 2012 at 12:45
  • Can you plz mark it as answered then.
    – vangop
    Jun 9, 2012 at 5:02
  • Thanks a lot, this also works for the missing tray icon of Shutter.
    – bfncs
    Nov 27, 2013 at 7:55
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I have just solved this problem with davMail on xubuntu using the following method:-

  1. Open the task manager and if davmail is running, kill it.
  2. Open a terminal and type sudo apt-get install libswt-gtk.
  3. Re-start DavMail and you should see the icon in the notification area.

It took me along time to find the solution, but it is quick and simple to do.

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Have you added the indicator applets to your panel? This might help: I can't add a Indicator Applet to Panel in Gnome-Classic

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  • Yes, like in one of the comment in the link you mentioned, in 12.04, it is used by default in gnome-session-fallback. I have many tray icons, but there are some which do not seem to be visible like Pidgin, Davmail, etc.
    – Shrijit
    May 14, 2012 at 14:24
  • With pidgin, you can go to the preferences and set Show tray icon to Always. I guess the other apps have similar settings as they would otherwise use the indicator applets.
    – Durand
    May 15, 2012 at 18:58

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