WICD tray icon doesn't show

Question

I installed WICD and it works fine, but the tray icon doesn't show. I've tried with wicd-client but only a notification shows up.

root@prat-VGN-NR21M-S:~# wicd-client
Has notifications support True
rename failed
Loading...
Connecting to daemon...
Connected.
displaytray True
Done loading.

In addition, under Kubuntu session the tray icon shows normally.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

1. Install the dconf-tools package and then open dconf-editor:

   

2. Navigate to desktop ➜ unity ➜ panel and add Wicd to systray-whitelist :

   

3. Log out and then back in. You should see the wicd icon the panel:

   

Answer 2

For Ubuntu 12.04 use ['All'] in desktop ➜ unity ➜ panel (delete all others)

worked for me :)

Answer 3

For Ubuntu 14.10, following the instructions here will get the WICD icon in the top panel.

Answer 4

For Ubuntu 11.10 , this article gives a solution for 11.10. Cant try it now, though.

wget http://www.pc-freak.net/files/add-wicd-to-whitelist.sh
sh add-wicd-to-whitelist.sh

And the code of the script

#!/bin/bash

TEMPFILE="/tmp/whitelist.temp"

rm -f $TEMPFILE
gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist | head -c -2 > $TEMPFILE
echo -n ", 'Wicd']" >> $TEMPFILE
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "`cat $TEMPFILE`"
rm -f $TEMPFILE

A restart (login/out) is required, too.

The script should do the same thing that the proposed solution above does...