Using an old trick to get it working in Natty, I had some success. First I queried (get command) the current whitelist for old-style notifications, and then copied it and added Skype to it (set command). After reboot Skype appeared when loaded.
gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'scp-dbus-service', 'Skype']" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/845173 Title: Missing system tray icon To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skype/+bug/845173/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs