Twinkle systray notification icon rendered outside panel in unity

[komputes]

Binary package hint: twinkle

Twinkle systray notification icon rendered outside panel in unity.

Workaround for enabling systray in unity below should (but does not) work.
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$ sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Once the installation is completed, type 'dconf-editor' in either the Alt+F2 launcher, or the Terminal to start the DConf Editor.

In the DConf Editor, go to: desktop --> unity --> panel

Change the systray-whitelist key from the default to ['all']

This will re-enable the Notification Area icons back in the Unity panel. Note that you may need to log out and back in to be sure the change is properly applied.
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: twinkle 1:1.4.2-2build2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 17 12:57:31 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: twinkle
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-17 (0 days ago)

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

This happens whether or not you whitelist twinkle. This is twinkle doing something wrong, not unity.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Stefan (stefan-satzenhofer)]

For me the white-list 'all' value worked in unity, but didn't in unity 2d. That is because of a bug in the white-list behaviour - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-2d/+bug/847525. The whitelist -entry 'ALL' doesn't work in unity 2d.

As I white-listed Twinkle by its own (Desktop - Unity - Panel- systray-whitelist: ['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'scp-dbus-service', 'Update-notifier', 'Twinkle'] it worked for me.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Twinkle has been removed from the archives since it is unmaintained and depends on Qt3. As such, no further improvements or bugfixes will be made to this software.

[komputes (komputes)]

Hi Jonathan, I would like to object to the decision to remove twinkle from the archives. Even though it has been 3 years since the last release, I would like to inform you that this is a solid piece of software. It is well written and I use it daily. I would ask for a reconsideration. Could you point me to the reference which states this program is being removed from Ubuntu archives?

[kapetr (kapetr)]

I fully agree with David.
Twinkle is most powerful SIP client which support all SIP features. Great logs, NAPTR support, ...
I have try almost any SIP client in Linux and Twinkle has no competition.

It has only one disadvantage - id does not support call recording. That is the only one reason, why I must use SFLphone.
Unfortunately :-(

[kapetr (kapetr)]

BTW: set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "..." works in Ubuntu 12.04 64b

[kapetr (kapetr)]

... WHY DOES NOT LAUNCHPAD SUPPORT POST EDITING !!!!! >>>>:-c

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'Update-notifier', 'cryptkeeper', 'sflphone-client-gnome', 'twinkle']"

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

this affects precise only since twinkle in trusty is a CLI-only application

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

twinkle has been resurrected and ported to QT5. The problem is still present there.

[Frédéric Brière (fbriere)]

Hi, Twinkle upstream co-maintainer here. If this bug is still present, please open an issue on our GitHub tracker at https://github.com/LubosD/twinkle/issues. Thanks!