A workaround, for anyone who like me doesn't know how to implement a patch to their system, is the following:
This might not work on all systems but on my Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 all I need to do is "killall scim-panel-gtk" and it's automatically restarted with the tray icon. There's a similar bug in both tomboy and gtg. Here's the full workaround on my system: Past the following 4 lines into a file (eg with gedit) and save it as scim_panel_reload.sh #! /usr/bin/bash while (! ps -C notification-area-applet); do echo -n .; done; echo # Wait for the notification area to load sleep 10 # Wait another 10 seconds (You may need to adjust this depending on your system) killall scim-panel-gtk # Kill scim-panel-gtk. It will be automatically reloaded Click: System->Preferences->Startup Applications Click: Add Enter the following info: Name: SCIM PANEL RELOAD Command: /path/to/scim_panel_reload.sh Comment: Workaround for Bug #475800 Click: Add scim-panel-gtk should then be reloaded each time you login. P.S. I have no idea why the "sleep 10" has to be in there after the notification-area-applet has loaded, but without it scim-panel-gtk is still loaded too early for it's icon to appear in the tray. Hope the patch gets incorporated into the next .deb release. -- Tray icon does not appear on startup in Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475800 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs