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What happens when your right-click on it? Since it is not the same colour as the background, this makes me think that it is actually some taskbar programme that has stopped working, or has a duff GUI bit (ie images overwritten, etc).
I've had the same problem with you. There is that mysterious grey square in the system tray and i just can't seen to get rid of it. I think has something to do with Fedora (and Red Hat since i've had the same problem with RH9) and KDE. I've searched for an ansewer but couldn't find anything. I've used other distros such as Suse, Mdk, Knoppix, College and i get that only in Red Hat. It may be a gnome applet that got installed and doesn't work with KDE. I've done the installation a 100 times choosing only KDE and not Gnome and uninstalling any Gnome based appz and stoppping services but the grey thing is still there.
If i find an ansewer i'll let you know. Plz do the same if you find it before i do cause is very ungly having that thing there all the time.
Another thing that i forgot to metnion in my previous post was that when you login as su using the terminal a set of keys appear in the mysterioys grey square and remain there. When you click on them a question appears saying that if you want to keep the authorization or forget the autorization. If you choose keep then the keys remain. If you choose forget then the keys disappear and the also the grey square only to appear a second later again.
I hope this helps all you more educated linux users to find an ansewer for this thing and dissable it once and for all.
Nonetheless I've managed to work around the problem. What you need is to kill a background process called "pam-panel-icon" - this is supposed to terminate automatically when you remove "root privileges" indicated by those set of yellow keys.
So you just need to:
(1) ps -ef | grep pam-panel-icon | awk {'print $2'} <--- a PID is returned
(2) kill -9 <your process ID here> <--- you kill that process definitely
The system tray will be back to normal, and the settings are retained even if you log out/reboot the system.
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