edgue
July 31st, 2012, 09:53 AM
He there,
I think I have seen this with 11.10 and 12.04 when running unity:
Sometimes (not too often) my tray icons disappear.
This means: the icons that represent certain running applications
(like IBM Sametime status, SAV antivir, opera, ...) are just no longer displayed.
Interestingly enough, when I switch to a different workspace ... the icons are visible for a second or so!
The indicator panels (caffeine, load, mail, power, sound, ...) are still there, just my "application icons" are hidden.
The screen shot that I will attach shows the "expected view" ...
you can see the application icons from the left; the last one is the
red "opera" O ... then the indicators start.
When the problem kicks in, any icon left to the "caffeine" indicator is not showing up any more.
One workaround is to open a console to manually restart unity:
> unity &
Or to restart the whole machine ;-)
Any idea anybody ... for example: does anybody which component is actually responsible for displaying these icons (so that I might write a bug report ... or restart just that application)?
I think I have seen this with 11.10 and 12.04 when running unity:
Sometimes (not too often) my tray icons disappear.
This means: the icons that represent certain running applications
(like IBM Sametime status, SAV antivir, opera, ...) are just no longer displayed.
Interestingly enough, when I switch to a different workspace ... the icons are visible for a second or so!
The indicator panels (caffeine, load, mail, power, sound, ...) are still there, just my "application icons" are hidden.
The screen shot that I will attach shows the "expected view" ...
you can see the application icons from the left; the last one is the
red "opera" O ... then the indicators start.
When the problem kicks in, any icon left to the "caffeine" indicator is not showing up any more.
One workaround is to open a console to manually restart unity:
> unity &
Or to restart the whole machine ;-)
Any idea anybody ... for example: does anybody which component is actually responsible for displaying these icons (so that I might write a bug report ... or restart just that application)?