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[Tamlin <475800@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A workaround, for anyone who like me doesn't know how to implement a
patch to their system, is the following:

This might not work on all systems but on my Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 all I
need to do is "killall scim-panel-gtk" and it's automatically restarted
with the tray icon. There's a similar bug in both tomboy and gtg.

Here's the full workaround on my system:
Past the following 4 lines into a file (eg with gedit) and save it as scim_panel_reload.sh
     #! /usr/bin/bash
     while (! ps -C notification-area-applet); do echo -n .; done; echo	# Wait for the notification area to load
     sleep 10				# Wait another 10 seconds (You may need to adjust this depending on your system)
     killall scim-panel-gtk		# Kill scim-panel-gtk. It will be automatically reloaded

Click: System->Preferences->Startup Applications
Click: Add
Enter the following info:
  Name: SCIM PANEL RELOAD
  Command: /path/to/scim_panel_reload.sh
  Comment: Workaround for Bug #475800
Click: Add

scim-panel-gtk should then be reloaded each time you login.

P.S. I have no idea why the "sleep 10" has to be in there after the
notification-area-applet has loaded, but without it scim-panel-gtk is
still loaded too early for it's icon to appear in the tray.

Hope the patch gets incorporated into the next .deb release.

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Tray icon does not appear on startup in Karmic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475800
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