Consider a scenario where a customer has provided you with an access to a AWS console and needs you to recover a running EC2 linux instance for him. Let’s assume that the customer is not very tech savy and not in possession of any private keys to the instance.
You got two options at this point in gaining access to the instance and working on restoring the system.
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If you are using Unity version of Ubuntu and you want the you favorite programe (eg. Skype) run on your systems/notification tray, try the folowing method. It’s pretty simple and safe.
Open a command prompt and run the following command.
gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist
You may get a following list of application already running in the system/notification tray.
[‘JavaEmbeddedFrame’, ‘scp-dbus-service’]
With the above result you can enter the following command apppending the application you require in the system/notifction tray as follows,
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist “[‘JavaEmbeddedFrame’, ‘Skype’, ‘scp-dbus-service’]”
That’s it… All you require a log off the current session and log back in.