Banshee Notification Area Icon in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty

My favourite extension for Banshee is called Notification Area Icon, which lets you control Banshee from an icon in the panel (left click will restore / minimise to tray, and right click will give you music controls). Unfortunately this stopped working after I upgraded to Ubuntu Natty.

To get it working again, you need to put Banshee in the Unity panel whitelist, which you can check with the following command.

gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist

Mine read as follows:

['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'hp-systray', 'scp-dbus-service']

To update this, you must append 'banshee' to the end of the list, and set it like so:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'hp-systray', 'scp-dbus-service', 'banshee']"

And then you will need to do a restart.


REFERENCES
http://fossplanet.com/f10/%5Bbug-777112%5D-%5Bnew%5D-notification-area-icon-not-working-ubuntu-11-04-banshee-2-0-0-a-154634