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iGadget
Asked: 2011-11-07 11:30:17 +0800 CST

How to show spreedX client ApplicationIndicator?

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For my job I require the use of the spreedX client which allows me to share my desktop when using the Spreed web conferencing environment (www.spreed.com). In pre-Unity Ubuntu versions, this application's indicator worked perfectly. However, it doesn't play nice with Unity (it doesn't show), not even when adding the magic

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']".

So I'm not entirely sure where to go from here, but I did find the (presumable) source of the client: https://github.com/andreashe/mygitsite/tree/master/spreedX.

I'm assuming that for an (experienced?) Python developer, it shouldn't be hard to fix the app by using the guidelines which I found here. Unfortunately, I'm no Python developer, let alone an experienced one :-(

But perhaps there are other solutions which I did not think about? Of course, I will contact Spreed and ask them to fix this, but if they won't (or it takes them forever) I would love to have some more options...

11.10

2 Answers

  1. Thanks to Jorge and the fact that I needed to reboot my machine for some other reason, I noticed that just running 

    gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'spreedX', 'scp-dbus-service', 'Wine', 'Update-notifier']"

    isn't enough to make it work. You also have to log out and back in again. Stupid beginner mistake - I know, but one easily made.

    It would be 'nice' if gsettings would prompt the user with something like "You need to log off and back in again in order to take these changes into effect." when setting stuff like this. On the other hand, IMHO the user shouldn't be required to practice such voodoo for such a simple task in the first place...

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  2. Later spreedX clients support Unity just fine. 

    sudo add-apt-repository http://dl.spreed.com/linux/spreedx/deb
wget -qO- http://dl.spreed.com/struktur-debian-package-sign-01-public.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install spreedx
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