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skype package

Skype notification area icon missing in Ubuntu 11.04 Classic desktop

Bug #764473 reported by Aigars Mahinovs
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skype (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: skype

When using Ubuntu 11.04 beta and Skype (both from their website and from the partner repository) the Skype panel icon is missing in the Classic desktop mode (the notification area applet is on the panel and shows other icons, such as Pidgin and Workrave, both no Skype). The icon shows up fine in the Unity interface.

Tags: compiz skype
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scatto (fscattolin) wrote :

Removing the notification area and re-add it at the panel works. But the problem apperas again when I reboot the system

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Aigars Mahinovs (aigarius) wrote :

Smothing here is intermittent. After a few restarts of Skype and a few times removing/adding the notification area to the panel, the icon showed up, only to be gone again after relogging.

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alexander (alexander-lazaroff) wrote :

-only the skype icon is missing, other apps seem to be OK
-skype icon appears sometimes but it is just 1x1px big

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alexander (alexander-lazaroff) wrote :

when logged in with "no effects" session everything seems to be working fine

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F.R.@.N.K (frank-iceshop) wrote :

Same problem here. Notification area seems to work fine.
Skype icon only appears about every 10 startups. Only 1 px to be seen (can also be clicked).
Removing and adding the notification area and/or restarting Skype both seem to have the same effect: It presents the icon sometimes.

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Tim Sullivan (sullivan-t-j) wrote :

Same problem here. The Skype icon is not present, but 1 white pixel is there, and is clickable. For me, removing and re-adding the notification area had no effect.

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Stefan Hammer (j-4-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I always have a 1x1px icon, it is click-able and everything. Compiz enabled and Classic Gnome Interface.

Changed in skype (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Michael (kkseem) wrote :

I think, there is a connection to Compiz.
I tried Metacity, there the bug did not seem to appear.

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mcarrera (mcarrera00-gmail) wrote :

Same problem here, I am using classic desktop, no Skype icon in the panel.
I have to kill the skype process and restart it every time I need to access it.

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tempman (tempman) wrote :

not only Skype(for ex. qutim, smplayer and other icons are missing at the second run)
with Ubuntu Classic(no effects) notification area works fine.
i have to reload that apllet (ex., killall -9 "notification-area-applet") every time i'm restart the application with NA's icon.

Guruprasad (lgp171188)
tags: added: compiz skype
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Marcin Dylewski (marcin-dylewski-m) wrote :

The same is here. I always get 1x1 icon which i can click and have skype available. I was not able to have normal icon even once. I am having problems with kadu (populat polish instant messaging application) as well but here problem shows much less often. Is there a bug in notification-area?

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Vladimir Darak (vladimir-darak) wrote :

Same problem here, I am using classic desktop. Skype icon is in the notification area but only 1px.

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splix (igor-artamonov) wrote :

yes, making killall -9 "notification-area-applet" after starting skype is fixing this problem

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Mangus (il-mangus) wrote :

same problem here.
killall -9 "notification-area-applet" resolved the issue...but needs to be launched every time.

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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

I have enough information for marking it as duplicate of bug 767095.

Please reopen if you don't agree.

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Subjucha (subjucha) wrote :

Try to run this command:
gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel

Then press Alt+F1 to restore panels.
It will restore defaults for the panel.

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