I believe this is related to this bug.
I enabled empathy notifications by whitelisting the Empathy application. This is not exactly restoring 11.04 behavior but it is a workaround until the bug is fixed.
Here is how to accomplish this:
~ $ gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist
['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'hp-systray', 'Dropbox', 'scp-dbus-service', 'Skype']
~ $ gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'hp-systray', 'Dropbox', 'scp-dbus-service', 'Skype', 'empathy']"
Your initial list may look different than mine. Take note of the double quotes around the output list when passed as input as well as the new entry for empathy.
You will need to log out and login again for the changes to take effect.
Note: This is not ideal. On my box, when the old notification area blinks, it looks like it's missing the correct icon, but at least I know I have messages waiting. I am going to leave mine like this until they get Empathy working with the new notification area.
First, Samba works on Ubuntu as well as Windows, so it is not only for Windows machines.
It is also easy to get similar functionality with ssh. One way is to type sftp://serverhostname in the file browser's address bar (ctrl+l). That should prompt for username and password, and then open a file browser window into the server filesystem. Then you can copy/paste files.
PS: You may need to login once from a terminal windows so that the known host file is updated.
Best Answer
Install
sshandlibnotify-bin(via terminal):on both computers.
(You may have
libnotify-bininstalled already. Mine had it already.)Then SSH (via the terminal) into the other computer:
And then when you're logged in, type:
Happy message-sending!
(or scaring XD)