On 02/21/2012 10:45 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
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.
Another possibility is that he disabled Skype in System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications.