Hi,
There's a bug[1] with java tray icons and the new gnome-shell, the icon
is no longer displayed. GNOME has adapted an additional spec[2] from the
freedesktop standards for its notification bar (system tray). It now
requires the XAtom _NET_WM_PID to be set, which in turn needs
WM_CLIENT_MACHINE. If they aren't then things don't go smoothly and the
bar won't show the icon/embedded frame.
The following webrev fixes the bug:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/~ddadacha/tray_icon/
This bug is also in jdk6 and 7 as well FWIW.
I would appreciate any comments!
Regards,
Danesh
[1] Original bug report - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683768
[2] http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/1.3/ar01s05.html#id2523510