Unity

I’m still in between using different desktop environment. My latest most stupid idea was to upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to version 11.10. It’s working, but I lost functionality, speed. As everything with computers, it’s about compromises. Not sure I this one suits me more, but I’ll see.

Icons - Gone

When starting Vuze or a couple of other applications which I usually just access via a small tray-icon: I can’t find them anymore. The reason for this is, that Unity keeps a white-list of applications it’s running and allowing to shop up in the icon tray. Design reasons, I guess.. Though this supports a visual clean desk, the one coming up with this idea should have been metaphorical been shot. Luckily you can make that white-list quite open:

Using the terminal set the default values to:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"

The default btw. is:

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

Finally just refresh Unity:

$ unity --replace

Then it looks like your desktop crashes (what it does in a way) and it comes back with the icons. I had to do this already twice ….

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