How to enable notification area (systray) for Pidgin

Solution 1:

You have to whitelist the applications if you want to allow them to access the system tray.

Firstly install dconf-tools from the software center ( or by clicking here) Then Press Alt+F2 and enter dconf-editor and run it.

dconf-editor alt-f2 dialog

Now navigate to Desktop -> Unity -> Panel.

configuration editor (dconf-editor) desktop.unity.panel

Now change the value of systray-whitelist to

['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'hp-systray', 'scp-dbus-service', 'Pidgin']

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Solution 2:

Pidgin won't show up in the systray, just in the messaging menu: enter image description here

Now for any other application to show up in the systray run the following code in the terminal: gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"

How to enable notification area (systray) for Pidgin

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