[SOLVED] Notification Area Icon - not working, Ubuntu 11.04, Banshee 2.0.0

[alexds9]

Binary package hint: banshee

No Bansee icon in notification area when Notification Area Icon extension checked.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Which version of Banshee/Ubuntu do you use? if you are using Ubuntu Natty Narwhal are you running unity or classic desktop?

[alexds9 (alexds9)]

Ubuntu 11.04 with unity
Banshee 2.0.0

[Sidney Li (sidney-hy-li)]

Actually I'm still running Ubuntu 10.10; I was trying out Banshee
2.0.0 and ran into the notification area issue. It found the report
on launchpad while searching for a solution, and added my "vote", but
I was in a hurry and missed the part about 11.04. Sorry. I just
installed 11.04 on a different partition but haven't had a chance to
really try it out. I'll check to see if Banshee has that problem in
11.04.

Sidney

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Kamus <email address hidden> wrote:
> Which version of Banshee/Ubuntu do you use? if you are using Ubuntu
> Natty Narwhal are you running unity or classic desktop?
>
> ** Changed in: banshee (Ubuntu)
>   Importance: Undecided => Low
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/777112
>
> Title:
>  Notification Area Icon - not working, Ubuntu 11.04, Banshee 2.0.0
>
> Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: banshee
>
>  No Bansee icon in notification area when Notification Area Icon
>  extension checked.
>
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[Sidney Li (sidney-hy-li)]

In Banshee 2.0, go to Edit -> Preferences. In the Extensions tab, almost at the bottom of the list, there is a "Notification Area Icon" which is not enabled by default. Enabling this does the trick (at least for Ubuntu 10.10; haven't tried it on 11.04, but it should work also).

[alexds9 (alexds9)]

I know that it supposed to be enabled. I meant to say in the Bug Description that "Notification Area Icon" is enabled in Preferences menu, but there is no Bansee icon in notification area.

[alexds9 (alexds9)]

Solution:

First of all, get the list of applications that registered in systray-whitelist of Unity panel, in terminal:

gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist

in my case:

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

now we need to add Banshee to this list, in terminal:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'hp-systray', 'scp-dbus-service', 'banshee']"

now, restart.
if "Notification Area Icon" enabled in Banshee, problem solved!