Workrave in Ubuntu Precise (12.04) vs. the notification area (a.k.a. the system tray)

Dear Workrave gurus,

I'm trying to use Workrave on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin).

I managed to get the notification area to accept Workrave by opening
up its restrictions with this command:

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

The Ubuntu folks are trying to get applications to stop using the
notification area and move to their new systems, so by default they
only allow a few applications to still use the notification area.  But
you can change the permissions like above.

However, when I did this, some quite strange things happened:

1. The Workrave icon has now disappeared from the launcher.  The
   launcher is the bar on the left of the screen that replaces the old
   task bar that used to be at the bottom (by default).  Normally,
   every program which has at least one window, even a hidden or
   iconified window, has an entry on the launcher.

2. At some point the Workrave window disappeared.  It had been on
   every desktop/workspace, but then it wasn't there anymore.  It
   isn't unusual for the Workrave window to inexplicably go away, so
   this might be unrelated.

3. There are now TWO Workrave icons in the notification area!  Neither
   of them reply to left clicks (and I haven't gotten the right click
   to work on my new computer yet, apparently I have to install a
   patched kernel or something like that).  I checked and there is
   still only one Workrave running (although it has 4 threads total).

Any idea what might be happening?  What should I check?

Thanks for your time in thinking about this weird situation.

-- 
Joe


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