Artha's GtkStatusIcon doesn't show up in Unity since it doesn't have a system tray

[Simon Butcher]

Since ubuntu unity does not include a system tray, artha is only partly functional in unity in ubuntu 11.04 alpha 3
Please use libunity to provide good integration between artha and the unity launcher. Currently i can only start the program and call up the window with the shortcut - cannot use the systray functionality.

[spyzer.abhishek (spyzer-abhishek0)]

Artha doesn't use libunity and hence the nature of this bug. But there is a possible workaround.

Step1 - Fetch thewhitelisted systray entries through this command
                                   gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist
Step2 - The list should be something like -
                         ['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'artha', 'hp-systray', 'scp-dbus-service']
Step3 - Add artha to this list through this command
                            gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'artha', 'hp-systray', 'scp-dbus-service']"
Step4 - Logout and in and you shall see the artha icon, but this gives rise to another bug that you cannot click on other systray icons.
Step5 - Resize the icon of artha to 24x24 which is located at /usr/share/pixmaps/artha.png OR just replace that file with the one attached along this post
Step6 - Restart computer and you are done!!!!

[Sundaram Ramaswamy (legends2k)]

Artha is expected to be used by many distros and not by Ubuntu alone. Unity doesn't honour GtkStatusIcon of GTK+, while other desktop environments Gnome, KDE, Xfce to name a few does. Adding conditional code only to tackle a single desktop environment's deviation defeats the purpose of using a cross-platform toolkit library.

Hence adding Artha to systry whitelist seems to be a better solution and this, if I'm not wrong, can be done with out changing the code i.e. via the debian package.

[cassiodoroVicinetti (artghio)]

GtkStatusIcon is deprecated since gtk+-3.0 version 3.14: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734826
For example in Plasma 5 it doesn't show up, even with sni-qt patch.

[Luigi Toscano (ltosky)]

In order to show in the Plasma and Unity "trays", the simple route is to use libappindicator.

See also http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/06/where-are-my-systray-icons/