I started noticing the same problem with system tray icons in 11.10 in January. At some point in my session all the system try icons stop responding. The applications still work, however the system tray icons do not respond to any mouse clicks. The native/indicator element are not affected. All the system tray icons stop working at the same time. The particular apps for me are: Skype, Remmina, Empathy, and Chrome.
If I quit/kil an app, e.g. Remmina, the Remmina system try icon will disappear. If I re-run the app, the system tray icon will appear again, in the left-most location, but it still won't respond to clicks. Restarting the panel service ( killall unity-panel-service ) does not fix the problem, the panel comes back but system try icons still don't work. A complete unity restart via ( unity --replace ) does work, but that's not much of a fix because usually Unity loses windows, stuffs up window/unity stack orders, loses the launcher, or does all the not- wonderful things Unity does on multi-monitor set-up. So in the end the only fix I have right now it to log out completely. I have yet to work out the exact trigger than cause system tray failure. I only started getting is this month, but others have reported the same thing back to June 2011. http://askubuntu.com/questions/46788/is-it-possible-to-restart-the-unity-panel-without-restarting-compiz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/905793 Title: Tray Icons Suddenly Stop Working in Unity To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/905793/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
