xchat disappears when minisied to tray with unity running

[TommyBoy]

Binary package hint: xchat

Ubuntu 11.04
xchat:
  Installed: 2.8.8-3ubuntu4
  Candidate: 2.8.8-3ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 2.8.8-3ubuntu4 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Expected:
On minimising the application a icon appears in the system tray

Actual:
No icon appears and the application can no longer be accessed through unity/sys tray
Causes problem with seeing if you have been sent a message, flashing icon

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.10-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,grid,regex,neg,move,place,mousepoll,resize,imgpng,vpswitch,gnomecompat,snap,session,animation,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,wall,expo,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
Date: Sun May 1 00:01:52 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-29 (1 days ago)

[qoiwejqioejqio (qioeujqioejqioe-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for helping to make Ubuntu better!

I can confirm this bug. Steps to reproduce it:
1) Open XChat with Unity;
2) Enable in XChat: Settings > Preferences > Alerts > Enable system tray icon;
3) Close the preferences window and close the XChat main window;
4) XChat is now inaccessible.

[Jonas Pedersen (jonasped)]

Please see bug #584212. Correct solution must be to remove the to systray option. Agree?

[Jonas Pedersen (jonasped)]

And optionally also integrate in system status menus according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu

[TommyBoy (thomaslloyd)]

I think that removing the system tray all together would be a good solution and have notifications coming from Unity along with the mail icon and sound icon would be good. I use 32" widescreens for work and find the system tray being fixed in the top right a real pain now. I miss all my notifications. Unity seems a little inflexible at the moment.

[Carl Leitner (litlfred)]

This is a work around that fixes the issue for me:
  http://linuxfloat.org/ubuntu-1104how-add-dropbox-icon-top-right
I just used 'xchat' instead of 'dropbox'

[Jay Pipes (jaypipes)]

The problem is that the system tray icon flashed a blue thing in it when you were direct messaged or someone pinged your nick on a channel. Now that notification is annoyingly gone...

[Mohammad AbuShady (coalwater)]

If you mean the old "!" mark that flashed in the old xchat in the notification indicator place, well now you get the unity notification instead, a small blue triangle on the top left side + a blue arrow (instead of the usual white one) next to the xchat icon on the unity bar. if you don't get them then maybe u could try messing with the xchat notification settings

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Dupe of #762193?