[ubuntu-us-nc] Radiotray in Natty

[Dick Smith]

Mildly useful, I think so!  Thanks for the tips

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Kevin Owen <fall.from.eden at gmail.com>wrote:

>  On 04/30/2011 08:31 PM, Dick Smith wrote:
>
> Thanks, Daniel.  I'll give it a try.
>
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Daniel Caleb <nix at tek12.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> At Saturday, 04-30-2011 on 5:12 pm Dick Smith wrote:
>> > I installed Radiotray in my Natty installation, it seems to have
>> installed,
>> > but I cannot seem to find it once I start it.  In Lucid it appears in
>> the
>> > top panel on the desktop. Perhaps it can't be used in Natty?  I'll be
>> > struggling with Unity for awhile, I suppose.
>> >
>> > Dick
>>
>>  Hey Dick,
>>
>> I had the same issues with Natty's notification tray... I did this:
>>
>>
>> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/how-to-hide-or-show-app-tray-applets-in-ubuntu-11-04/
>>
>> But you can also install dconf-editor (should be in synaptic or just
>> apt-get install from a terminal), you'll want to expand: Desktop --> Unity
>> --> Panel and then manually edit the systray-whitelist key - follow the
>> syntax for the items already present.
>>
>> You'll have to log out and log in to see the changes... and as a heads up,
>> some items still don't display properly...
>>
>> Have a good one...
>> Daniel
>>
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>
> Well, Natty is has pretty well done away with the notification tray. That's
> the whole point of indicators, and it seems that Canonical is attempting to
> shove things along a little in that direction. For now, though, most
> applications are still in a transitional period, meaning those tray icons
> are still pretty useful.
>
> I just thought that I'd mention that you can also whitelist literally all
> tray icons with the command gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel
> systray-whitelist "['all']", which is what I've done myself... but I don't
> use too many applications that make use of the tray, so clutter is a
> non-issue. Just thought I'd let it be known that you can do that.
>
> Also, you don't actually have to log out and back in. Press Alt+F2, then
> type unity --replace to restart the window manager, and voila. Oh, and to
> install dconf-editor, you actually need to install the dconf-tools package.
>
> Hope that was at least mildly useful. :)
>
>   - Kevin
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