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.
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