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. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant