Comment 4 for bug 1021647

Ubuntu, since 11.04 doesn't allow many apps to show icons in the notification zone (systray). In order to authorize screenkey in systray, you can use dconf-editor (GUI) or gsettings (console) to add/update the "com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist" with "screenkey" string. It's probably the responsability of the package maintener to do that on install.

Anyway, I still fall back on other open bugs (#658018 and #756346) : the icon is not responsive or hangs completly the app, so that i can't configure it.

Using default setting, then. Could you think of a config file ($HOME/.screenkeyrc ?) in order to set up the app ?