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

[Rainer M Krug]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

That's what I thought...


>
> 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.
>

Perfect - works like a charm. Would suggest to add it to the wiki, as I gess
I am not the only one having these problems.

Cheers and thanks a lot,

Rainer


>
> 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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Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

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