Skype not showing in indicator

I have been investigating this issue and I think it is a multiarch problem. The architecture of your machine is amd64, but Skype is a 32bit only application, so it needs a 32bit version of sni-qt. sni-qt and its dependencies needs to be made multiarch friendly. This means fixing the sni-qt and libdbusmenu-qt2 packages as well.

This bug was fixed in the package sni-qt - 0.2.2-0ubuntu3

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sni-qt (0.2.2-0ubuntu3) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Multi-Arch support (LP: #838470).
  * Update Vcs-Bzr url.
 -- Aurelien Gateau <email address hidden> Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:53:05 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package libdbusmenu-qt - 0.9.0-0ubuntu2

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libdbusmenu-qt (0.9.0-0ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Remove build-dependency on libqjson-dev.
  * Convert to multiarch. (LP: #838470)
  * debian/patches/kubuntu_03_multiarch_support.diff:
    - add multiarch support to upstream CMake
 -- Aurelien Gateau <email address hidden> Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:05:40 +0200

I'm having this same problem running 32-bit Skype on my 32-bit netbook using the latest version of 11.10.

I'm currently running 11.10 beta2 and also do not have a working indicator.

$ dpkg -l skype:i386 libdbusmenu-qt2 sni-qt
ii libdbusmenu-qt 0.9.0-0ubuntu2
ii skype:i386 2.2.0.35-0onei
ii sni-qt 0.2.2-0ubuntu3

There also appears to be a few bugs related to this topic, in case any of these could be marked as dups:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skype/+bug/854448
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skype/+bug/845173
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/819398

With the i386 versions of sni-qt and libdbusmenu-qt2 I almost have a working indicator. The indicator is there when skype is launched, but [visually] goes away as soon as I'm logged in. If I put my mouse where the indicator was, I can get to skype's indicator menu and things - just can't see it.

$ dpkg -l skype:i386 libdbusmenu-qt2 libdbusmenu-qt2:i386 sni-qt sni-qt:i386
ii libdbusmenu-qt2 0.9.0-0ubuntu2
ii libdbusmenu-qt2:i386 0.9.0-0ubuntu2
ii skype:i386 2.2.0.35-0oneiric2
ii sni-qt 0.2.2-0ubuntu3
ii sni-qt:i386 0.2.2-0ubuntu3

Hi John,

This last issue (the indicator going away after start up) should be fixed with sni-qt 0.2.4, which just got pushed to the archive.

Confirmation:

The indicator works when launching skype, and continues to work after login. Nice work!

$ dpkg -l | grep sni-qt
ii sni-qt 0.2.4-0ubuntu1
ii sni-qt:i386 0.2.4-0ubuntu1

I am running 32 Bit Ubuntu 11.10 with all updates including sni-qt 0.24-0ubuntu1.

This has not been fixed for me. Skype is set to automatically log in and minimise to the indicator bar. But when it does, there is still no indicator. I have to killall skype and restart it when I want to use it.

Anything else I can do to help debug?

Le 27/09/2011 09:25, Jason a écrit :
> I am running 32 Bit Ubuntu 11.10 with all updates including sni-qt
> 0.24-0ubuntu1.
>
> This has not been fixed for me. Skype is set to automatically log in and
> minimise to the indicator bar. But when it does, there is still no
> indicator. I have to killall skype and restart it when I want to use it.
>
> Anything else I can do to help debug?

Which desktop are you running Unity, Unity 2D, KDE, something else?

You can enable debug output. Create ~/.config/sni-qt.conf and add the
following to it:

[general]
debug=1

Then start Skype from the command line. You should get a bunch of sni-qt
messages to paste here.

Aurélien