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The Messaging Tray is the bottom bar in GNOME Shell which contains indicators and message notifications.

The Messaging Tray is listed as one of the features of GNOME 3 at gnome.org, where a video of it is also available.

Image of Messaging Tray from gnome.org

(Screenshot from www.gnome.org)

The Messaging Tray can either be made visible by moving the mouse cursor to the lower-right side of the screen in the normal desktop view, or by entering the Activities view.

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How to disable bottom panel/message tray in Gnome Shell 3.4?

Running Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome Shell 3.4. After enabling Bottom panel extension (to remove annoying Message tray/bottom panel/hot-corner at the bottom; You know what I am talking about(: ), still a "half" message pop-up after adding USB drive.…
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Access gnome-shell messaging tray using keyboard

Is there a keyboard shortcut to access the gnome-shell messaging tray? E.g. For responding to incoming IM, etc.
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Is there a way to hide the Messaging Tray in GNOME Shell?

I find the Messaging Tray (the bottom bar) in GNOME Shell rather inconvenient. I'm looking for a way to disable it. KRSNA 2 ZED seems to have written an extension for doing just that, but I don't know how to install it. Any help would be…
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Ubuntu 13.04 Pidgin Tray

Does not show the current status of pidgin in the system tray. Status always is Offline. how i can fix this? ps: pidgin works fine.
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Is there a way to find out what is the name of an icon that is on the bottom bar, on Gnome 3?

Is there a way to find out what is the name of an icon that is on the bottom bar, on Gnome 3? For example, the name of the icon of Audacious is audacious, for Dropbox it's dropbox... I need their names to write them down on the Status Icon Fixer…
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How to move the "hot corner" of the messaging tray in gnome-shell?

I have two monitors, side by side, and my main monitor is on the left. In Gnome Shell, the task-bar can be quickly looked at by moving the mouse to the bottom right hot corner, but since I have a monitor to the right, it is really hard to not…
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How can I customize the GNOME Shell Messaging Tray?

I'm using GNOME Shell and have some questions about customization that I think will be cool to try. For example, the Messaging Tray shows only the icon of the program (Dropbox, Google Chrome, etc), and when you got the mouse hovering over it, it…
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Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome classic trayicon doesn't work (at least for Pidgin)

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome classic. Pidgin's tray icon doesn't show up. The settings is ok ("Always"). For any case, I've also added it in dconf-editor as per How to enable notification area (systray) for Pidgin although that's probably only…
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How to get the tray icon highlighted when an email in a local folder is received?

When I get a new email in my inbox folder, the tray icon changes to blue (in Ubuntu 12), but when I use a filter to move the email to a local folder, the tray icon doesn't change! How can I solve this? Thanks! (It's being cross-posted from the…
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No blue envelope when using filters on Thunderbird

I'm having the following issue with Thunderbird 17.0.2 under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (fresh install and full updated): When I receive a new e-mail on any inbox (no filters) everything is nice, sounds a notification, a notification appears on system tray…
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Message tray does not give live updates forThunderbird, Gwibber, Emphathy. Is this supposed to be like this?

I am running a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10. I entered my account details in the online accounts app. In the message tray icon in the systray, thunderbird, Gwibber, Empathy all just have links to the app. Unless the thunderbird,gwibber,emphathy…
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