Ubuntu – Wine systray not working on Unity Ubuntu 14.04

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The problem is that the wine systray is not working in my Unity desktop on Ubuntu 14.04.

Any other app for Ubuntu (Skype, Steam-ubuntu version, Transmission) works fine, just the Wine systray is not appearing.

I reset Unity, reinstalled it, reinstalled wine and I can't make it work.

Best Answer

Wine (Windows) System Tray does not work in Ubuntu. There are two options:

1. Emulate a virtual desktop

Use POL -> Configure -> [select app] -> Wine -> Configure Wine -> Graphics -> Emulate a virtual desktop to run the application from the virtual desktop. When you run the application this way, it runs in a small windows screen with a System Tray. Once the application is minimised to the System Tray, you can left-click it. I couldn't get right-click to work.

2. Indicator Systemtray Unity App

The Indicator Systemtray Unity app by GGleb adds the Wine (Windows) System Tray into the Unity Application Indicator.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fixnix/indicator-systemtray-unity
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-systemtray-unity

You may need to reboot to get the System Tray to show up. As before, left-click worked for me but right-click did not.

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