Comment 42 for bug 974480

It's obvious Canonical is notgoing to listen to it's users here, so I have taken the steps necessary to make Ubuntu/Unity a usable environment. I have reverted this change and posted a ppa here:

https://launchpad.net/~timekiller/+archive/unity-systrayfix

to use it, of course:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:timekiller/unity-systrayfix
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

In addition, I have atached the diff necessary to back this change out. I plan to maintain the above PPA, but if for whatever reason I can't, or someone wants to roll their own Unity packages with this change reverted, here are the very easy steps:

save attached diff

mkdir my-unity
cd my-unity
bzr branch lp:ubuntu/unity
cd unity
patch -p1 < <path-to-saved-diff>
debuild -i -us -uc -b
cd ..
dpkg -i *.deb

Problem solved.