Oldish and great program, things are solvable this way #Generate key with sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alltray-developers/ppa
#clear apt cache sudo apt-get clean If you use synaptic change concrete one alltray repository to be on Karmic, to look like this URI: http://ppa.launchpad.net/alltray-developers/ppa/ubuntu/ Distribution: Karmic Section(s): Main temporary uncheck all other repositories (to not pull official version), remember or take a note which ones sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install alltray Start it with alltray -a It will install 0.74dev+ version (alltray --version) In default newer ubuntu is installing that 0.71 version which is almost unusable And what is beautiful now, you can connect processes without clicking finding them with xprop | awk '/PID/ {print $3}' #this will find process PID alltray -p pidnumber Recheck unchecked repositories (return system to normal) prove: http://ppa.launchpad.net/alltray-developers/ppa/ubuntu/dists/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/890430 Title: Alltray's show is broken, but undock works To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/alltray/+bug/890430/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs