I want to enable the System tray icon for Pidgin in Ubuntu 11.10 (with Unity), but I don't see it.
I have to start it again and again from the launcher panel or from the dash.
Is there a workaround to show the system tray icon in Unity? I think it's the same behavior for Skype and some other applications also.
答え1
For 12.10 and older:
execute:
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"
(from http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/things-to-tweak-after-installing-ubuntu.html)
and remember to set the system tray to "always" in pidgin preferences.
If the change doesn't take effect immediately, run unity --replace
答え2
For 13.04:
The migration of Pidgin to the new libmessaging-menu API, which caused this issue, is now done for Pidgin, but still under testing. Also, only a Ubuntu 13.04 package is provided so far, but since it does not introduce any dependencies on other stuff from 13.04, I was able to just install it from the PPA of the programmer who fixed it. According to his instructions, this is what fixed it for me:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jconti/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pidgin-libnotify
You should now have pidgin-libnotify version 0.14-9ubuntu1. In addition, you have to add the following line to /usr/share/applications/pidgin.desktop:
X-MessagingMenu-UsesChatSection=true
Then restart Pidgin, it should now get an entry in the message indicator menu of the panel again, so that when closing its window, it stays running.
Update
It is NOT necessary (any more) to install this repository as of May 23. Probably the updates have been officially included by now.
Just make sure the libnotify plugin is active! With Ubuntu 12.10 (and previous) and the whitelist for system tray icons you/the user may have deactivated the libnotify plugin on purpose.
答え3
In 11.10 Unity has hidden the system tray access to pidgin under the messaging icon that looks like an envelope. If you click it, there should be an entry for Pidgin. Not exactly what you're looking for, but at least it's accessible somehow via the system tray.
答え4
As you can read on launchpad they changed the messages indicator and the pidgin indicator is not adapted to these changes. There is a ppa for the recent development but as it says on launchpad:
for quantal we will add those soon:
- pidgin
- xchat-indicator
- evolution-indicator
meaning we still have to wait for it :-(
If it's finally out you can add the ppa using
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ppa
sudo apt-get update
There is no way to tell for sure what package you have to install after that but there is a good chance it will be
sudo apt-get install checkbox-unity