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Richard Holloway
Asked: 2010-08-17 13:15:05 +0800 CST

How do I enable the Ubuntu One tray applet?

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I am running 10.04 and I am unable to get a tray applet to appear for Ubuntu One. I am sure there was an applet in 9.04 (Jaunty) and 9.10 (Karmic).

I have the package ubuntuone-client-gnome installed which Synaptic tells me

"This package contains the tray applet and Nautilus extension, providing integration with the GNOME desktop."

The applet is not on the "Add to panel..." list and there doesn't appear to be anything in the menus.

So how do I make the applet appear?

10.04 gnome ubuntu-one applet

4 Answers

  1. Those of you wanting to know more about what the syncdaemon is doing may be interested in magicicada. It's a desktop app that talks to syncdaemon over dbus. It's already in Maverick, and you can get it off the PPA for Lucid: ppa:chicharreros/ppa.

    "A tool for engineers by engineers" would aptly describe it.

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  2. Best Answer

    As far as I know, the Ubuntu One applet has been integrated into the 'me menu'. At the bottom of the me menu you should see something like:

    Chat Accounts...
Broadcast Accounts...
Ubuntu One...

    Click on 'Ubuntu One...' to edit Ubuntu One preferences. Other actions are done in nautilus. You can right click on a file/folder (in your home folder) and click 'Synchronise on Ubuntu One' for example.

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  3. Richard - At Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, we removed the applet that was there in Ubuntu 9.10. Hopefully, there will be some updates to the network indicatory menu in Ubuntu 11.04 that we will be able to take advantage of to show Ubuntu One sync status. Until then, you can use Jorge's technique of running u1sdtool from the Terminal.

    u1sdtool --help returns a list of the arguments you can use to tell what's happening with sync. Some ones that I use frequently are

    • u1sdtool -c
    • u1sdtool -s
    • u1sdtool --waiting-content
    • u1sdtool --current-transfers

    Thanks!

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  4. If you are still interested in it have a look at: ubuntuone-indicator

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