Notification Area panel applet

[suvayu ali]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 03:25, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:27, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
>>wrote:
>>> In other words, it knew I
>>> wanted to "clear all known applications" from a setting in a config
>>> file somewhere. I want to nuke this config file to put it back to the
>>> original settings, but I can't find any config file for it.
>>
>>I think its the other way round. As you use it and new applications
>>use the tray, they get added and the applet "remembers" them. After
>>first use, you can select what to show and what to hide again.
>
> I think we have miscommunicated. I mean the Notification Area applet,
> not the Window Buttons applet. The Notification area only shows icons
> for a handful of system-type utilities, like network manager, bluetooth
> manager, volume control, and so on. Most applications never use the
> Notification area at all, whether running or not - for example,
> Firefox, LibreOffice, mail client, etc.

No I understood you just right. I meant the notification area. Maybe
you just need to restart the panel. You can try "xfce4-panel -r" from
the Alt+F2 run dialog.

If that doesn't work, maybe remove the systray config file[1], logout and login.

[1] ~/.config/xfce4/panel/systray-4.rc

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