:date: 2012-02-23 10:03 .. index:: linux, tech 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 :program:`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: .. code:: bash gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']" The default btw. is: .. code:: bash ['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'hp-systray', 'scp-dbus-service'] Finally just refresh Unity: .. code:: bash $ 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 .... `Source `__