Status icon is not displayed in the system tray on Ubuntu 11.04

After installing VNC Server on Ubuntu 11.04 the sytatus icon is not displayed in the system tray by default.  You can enable it by adding VNC Server to the whitelist using gsettings:

$ gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist
['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'hp-systray', 'scp-dbus-service']

Then add VNC Server into the returned string and call set:

$ gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist ['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'hp-systray', 'scp-dbus-service', 'StatusIconCoprocess']

For VNC Server v5.0 and above, the entry in the whitelist should be 'VNC Server'.

Alternatively, VNC Server v5.0 and above can use the new Application Indicators API.  This can be enabled by adding the following to ~/.vnc/vncserverui:

UseAppIndicator=1

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