Mail Notification

Icon disappears from systray if there is no unread mail

Bug #1469427 reported by capacitor
6
This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mail Notification
New
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

I used mail notification with Ubuntu 12.04 and the icon was always visible in the systray. When I migrated to Ubuntu MATE 15.04 the icon becomes visible only in case of new mail. Is there a known solution to this little problem?

See original description
capacitor (mfh-fake)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Deleted (noone1) wrote :

You can turn the icon back on by opening gconf and navigating to /apps/mail-notification.
Tick the "always-display-icon" tickbox.

Revision history for this message
capacitor (mfh-fake) wrote :

I didn't expect to see an answer to this report after almost three years...
There is no gconf on Ubuntu MATE, because the desktop environment is not gnome.

Since I'm here, I want to report that the bug still exists on Ubuntu MATE 17.10 and on a couple versions between this and 15.04. I found a way to put a patch on the problem, but it's not particularly elegant. I entered a random email with a random password, so that Mail Notification can't connect to this email and always shows an error message. This way the icon is always visible in the tray even when there is no new mail.

To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.
Subscribing...

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.