Hide Artha Dictionary Icon from Notification Area in Classic Interface?

Question

I'm using Artha Dictionary, and all I want to do is hide its icon from the notification area without loosing its functionality (i.e. Ctrl+W to bring up the meaning of selected word and show the same using NotifyOSD.). The only reason why I want to do it is, Artha's icon is not monochrome and hence doesn't integrate well with rest of the icons showing in the panel.

While using Unity, the icon is not shown and I still get proper notifications of word meanings I look up, the icon appears on panel in the classic mode. Removing Notification Area from the panel also removes Artha's functionality. If icon cannot be hidden, I'll prefer to have a monochrome icon for Artha that looks perfect on panel.

Answer 1

1. Open usr/share/pixmaps/artha.png in an image editor.

2. a) To make it dissapear: Resize the icon to 1 pixel in width and paint it transparent.

   b) To change the icon: Paste any image you want over the top of the existing image.

3. Save the image to the Desktop.
4. Open Accessories;Terminal and enter the following command replacing zach with your own home folders name:

sudo mv '/home/zach/Desktop/artha.png' '/usr/share/pixmaps'

The changes should take effect upon restarting your computer.

Answer 2

Here is what I did.

Go to /usr/share/pixmaps.

Rename 'artha.png' to 'artha1.png'

Now you get this on start:

WARNING : Error loading icon file!
/usr/share/pixmaps/artha.png not found!

If you lose the icon in the menu after doing this:

Go to /usr/share/applications and change the icon manually for Artha to /usr/share/pixmaps/artha1.png (usually with right click- Properties).

I hope in the next update a feature to hide tray icon is included. (Currently v1.0.2.)

Answer 3

While using Unity, the icon is not shown and I still get proper notifications of word meanings I look up, the icon appears on panel in the classic mode.

To enable this, I suggest that you do the following:

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Type Alt-F2 and enter "dconf-editor"

Navigate to:

(Ubuntu 11.04) desktop -> unity -> panel

(Ubuntu 12.10) com -> canonical -> unity -> panel

Add 'artha' to the systray-whitelist, thus:

['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'hp-systray', 'scp-dbus-service', 'artha']

...and save it.

The artha icon should now appear on the "panel" or "notification area" (completely close Artha and re-open it).