Improvements under Ubuntu 11.04

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I have a few suggestions for improving usability under Unity/Ubuntu 11.04.

1. Show a Tray Icon option doesn't do anything. Making this work natively would 
be great.
2. Running AutoKey again brings up the dialog "AutoKey is already running as 
pid: 12345." It'd be more usable if it would show the config dialog for the 
running process. Adding AutoKey to the Unity Launcher isn't useful since it 
just raises this dialog instead of showing the config. This would be relatively 
insignificant if the tray icon worked.

It's documented elsewhere that Win+K brings up the configuration window but I 
wanted to be sure that was documented in this issue for anyone searching for 
this issue.

Thanks for the useful software!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ben.hol...@gmail.com on 25 May 2011 at 7:03

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For (1), did you restart AutoKey after adjusting this option?

Original comment by cdekter on 25 May 2011 at 9:12

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I did restart it after adjusting that option.

Original comment by ben.hol...@gmail.com on 25 May 2011 at 9:14

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I think the reason you can't see the tray icon is that Ubuntu 11.04 only allows 
programs from its "white-list" to display old-style gnome tray icons. A 
workaround is to open dconf-editor (install the dconf-tools package), go to 
desktop>unity>panel, and add "autokey" to the end of the string listing allowed 
programs.

The bigger issue, though, is whether indicator-menu support could be added to 
autokey. This would allow for much better integration with the Unity desktop, 
and it looks like the libindicator standard is being adopted pretty widely.

Original comment by scotti...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2011 at 9:16

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It certainly could be added, it's just a matter of finding the time to write 
the code. There are plenty of people asking for stuff to be done but none 
offering to actually help do it.

Original comment by cdekter on 1 Jul 2011 at 10:51

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There is a working solution with just two lines in a terminal window, have a 
look at http://ubuntu-install.blogspot.com/2011/06/autokey.html
It work's fine on my machine!

Original comment by Christia...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2011 at 7:32

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Thanks for working out the Unity tray icon fix. The other requests in this bug 
are on hold as of now because they probably won't be relevant for the rewrite 
anyway.

Original comment by cdekter on 16 Jul 2011 at 12:37

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