Skype Icon in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

Installing Skype on Ubuntu 12.04 I realized the Skype’s icon was not shown in the notification panel of Unity.

No problem, you can solve it just inserting it into the white-list with the following command:

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

this command show you all the applications that can show its icon in the systray, for example:

['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'Update-notifier', 'SpiderOak']

At this point you have to add Skype to the whitelist using the set option of command gsettings as the following example:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "[]"

where the whitelist is the copy of the list shown by the above command with the addition of Skype.

For example:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'Update-notifier', 'SpiderOak', 'Skype']"

WARNING: enclose the list within double quotes (“)