[Gnome-Shell] Seeing that Thunderbird icon always

Question

Hi,
when receiving a mail when I am not at the computer I won't see directly that I got one. Just when going down with the cursor that forces that panel at the bottom to appear. There is my Thunderbird icon notifying me that a mail was received.
But I like to see it all the time like in Gnome3-Fallback when that icon was always at the top panel in the notification area. Is there any way to see that icon always without clicking/moving somewhere?
Last edited by A_ch (2011-05-28 23:44:54)

Answer 1

Hello,
there is a extension tutorial, that shows how to make the gnote icon always visible by moving it to the top tray. You should be able to port it to thunderbird.
See: http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2011/05/more-g … ation.html
Edit: I set it up myself here (with gnote though, just replace all gnote calls with thunderbird). It looks like this:
$pwd
/home/username/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]
$ls
extension.js metadata.json
$cat extension.js
const StatusIconDispatcher = imports.ui.statusIconDispatcher;
function main() {
StatusIconDispatcher.STANDARD_TRAY_ICON_IMPLEMENTATIONS['gnote'] = 'gnote';
$cat metadata.json
{"shell-version": ["3.0.2"], "uuid": "[email protected]", "name": "gnotetop", "description": "Moves the gnote icon to the system status bar."}
There is also in interactive extension tool that ships with gnome-shell. Invoke it with gnome-shell-extension-tool --create, it will do most of the setup for you.
Last edited by Wey (2011-06-02 12:46:17)