CentOS-5.7 Skype 2.1.0.81beta
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.
The absence is not merely cosmetic. Without that icon once I close the Skype dialog window I know of no other way to activate a desktop dialog window with the running Skype instance. Running Skype again gives the warning that another instance is already running and then quits.
A clue to what has happened might be when Skype is in this state incoming notices pop-up from the right hand side of the lower (switcher) menu bar immediately to the left of the work space display. But there is no way to get Skype to open.
Anyone have any suggestions about how to get this back?
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.
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.
On 02/21/2012 05:08 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
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.
That's not possible if the OP can start a new instance. The OP stated:
The absence is not merely cosmetic. Without that icon once I close the Skype dialog window I know of no other way to activate a desktop dialog window with the running Skype instance. Running Skype again gives the warning that another instance is already running and then quits.
On 02/22/2012 01:41 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Another possibility is that he disabled Skype in System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications.
That's not possible if the OP can start a new instance. The OP stated:
The absence is not merely cosmetic. Without that icon once I close the Skype dialog window I know of no other way to activate a desktop dialog window with the running Skype instance. Running Skype again gives the warning that another instance is already running and then quits.
Yeah, I read the rest of OP's mail just after I send my mail :( I was in a stupid hurry.
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