Running Xubuntu 8.10, but having a heck of a time accessing the Contacts window if I’ve accidentally minimized it. An icon for Spark is not showing up in my system tray. If I do minimze the Contacts window, I have to kill Spark from the command line, manually edit .Spark/spark.properties , and relaunch the application.
This version is too old and doesnt has the new systray code. You can try compiling the latest version, or… i think the new systray should be in the experimental izpack installer (spark-installer.jar) http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/thread/37565