On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:30:55 -0500 James B. Byrne wrote:
Formerly, when I opened Skype a green Skype icon would appear in the upper menu bar of the Gnome desktop. Now it does not. I must have moved or modified something on the Desktop to cause this to disappear although I cannot recall what that might have been. It certainly was not a conscious modification and I would like to get the icon back.
You probably deleted the Notification Area on your panel. Add it back.
To prevent just exactly these sorts of problems, I install gconf-editor on all of my computers and lock the panel by running gconf-editor and setting apps-panel-global-locked_down to true.
If you need to change the panel again in the future, just set that value back to false, make your change, and lock it again.