The missing system tray icons on Fedora 19 Desktop Edition

Question

Once installing Fedora 19 Desktop Edition, I run the systray of Qt Example. But I could not look for the system tray icon.

There is no Notification area in the Activities overview.

Please let me know to display the notification area or the tray icon.

Mazur

+1 same problem here, Pidgin icon is not appearing.. – Isaacs

Just figured out, moving the mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen helped to find out pidgin... – Isaacs

I installed pidgin and dropbox, but those are missing in spite of moving the mouse to the bottom right corner. – Mazur

I tested on the Virtual Box. Is it the related with? – Mazur

I just discovered one more way to display notifications using Super+M ( I call it windows key :-) ) . Let me know this worked for you or not.. ( Discovered at help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.8/more-core-ux.html.en ) – Isaacs

It works on the Virtualbox. Thanks. – Mazur

Belongs on superuser.com – Naturopathy

On Fedora 20, had the same problem with Skype and Dropbox. Solved using Windows key+M – Hix

Answer 1

Moving your mouse quickly to the bottom right should display the Message Tray. If it doesn't work, use Super+M (windows key+M).

If you're running Synergy, the pressure sensitivity isn't working and you won't be able to use the mouse, because of this known bug. You must use Super+M.

Corvette

There is some way to change this keyboard shortcut???? I'm running gnome shell on a VM over OSX (Super+M is used for minimizing the current application on OSX). :-( – Agueweed

You can set your VM to use shortcuts on each operating system respectively, and mark the answer as correct since it answers successfully your question. – Inconsonant

Answer 2

Today I installed Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 and I couldn't find the Message Tray. Moving the mouse down I made it appear some times. Finally I realized that it opened every time I moved my finger down on the touchpad two times. I don't know if this interaction is intended or it is just a bug.

Super+M works too, thanks!

Lacey

There's a little exclamation mark on GNOME 3.8+, at least, that you can click on to bring up the message tray too. GNOME 3.8 is what comes with Fedora 19. – Etoile

Answer 3

If you're willing to install the Frippery Bottom Panel.

               

The little exclamation point icon on the bar can be clicked to bring up the Message Tray too.

         

Clicking an item from the tray area or pressing Esc to cancel it, will remove the focus on the tray.

Etoile

Answer 4

The answer from this reddit post suggests to install AppIndicator support from Gnome extensions. This extension is responsible for showing system tray icons in Gnome. It comes preinstalled in Ubuntu as stated in the answer, but not on Fedora.

By default, you should click the date-time at the center of the status bar to view notifications. Alternatively, super+M shortcut also does the same work.

Lakshmi