How to find name for whitelisting tray icons in natty / unity?

[Bilal Akhtar]

On Tuesday 07 June 2011 02:01 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> Hi
>
> this might be a question not worth for the power-user list, but here is
> it anyway:
>
> How can I figure out the name of the application which I have to put
> into the tray-icon whitelist? I want to add google desktop, but I
> dsimply do not manage to find the name of it.

Its easy.

Just look at the .xsession-errors file in your home directory (hidden by 
default). When Unity blocks a TrayIcon from coming up because it isn't 
in the whitelist, a debug message comes up on .xsession-errors. An 
example message:

** (<unknown>:1773): DEBUG: TrayChild Rejected: Empathy empathy Empathy

The message will contain 3 strings of information about the program. 
Adding the second one (in this case "empathy") to the whitelist will help.

Hope this helps,

Bilal Akhtar.

>
> I used ['all'], but it messes completely the panels up (I use two
> monitors of different resolution, and the bottom one (higher resolution)
> only shows half of the usual icons any more - so not an option.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rainer
>
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