Cannot restore rhythmbox from notification area in gnome-shell after closing window

[Mark Harrison]

I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 with gnome-shell. When I close the rhythmbox window, it is still accessible through the notification area (or systray, whatever it's called) in the lower-right corner as expected. I can still pause and skip to the next or previous track. However, I can't restore the window, whether by right-clicking and selecting "Open" or by left-clicking and clicking on the info box. I have to restart rhythmbox from the Activities menu (it doesn't restart playback, just shows the currently running instance). If I minimize instead of closing the window, then restoration works through either of the notification area methods.

[Mark Harrison (mark-z-harrison)]

I've reported this upstream (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670038), and a Rhythmbox developer replied that this problem was "a consequence of an Ubuntu-specific patch."

In case I wasn't clear, the problem is with restoring Rhythmbox from Gnome3's Message Tray in the lower-right corner.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Bug report did not expire due to bugwatch
No reply to comment #2 asking if issue still present
Current releases of GNOME Shell do not have a system tray
Closing as "Invalid"