Stalonetray
Stalonetray is a stand-alone freedesktop.org and KDE system tray for the X Window System. It has full XEMBED support, minimal dependencies and works with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager. Window managers that are reported to work well with stalonetray are: FVWM, Openbox, Enlightenment, Ion3, Compiz, Xmonad, dwm, and awesome.
Contents
Installation
Install the stalonetray package. Once installed, copy the stalonetrayrc file to your home directory. Note that you should do this as a regular user.
$ cp /etc/stalonetrayrc ~/.stalonetrayrc
Configuration
Openbox
To run Stalonetray in Openbox, dockapp-mode must be set to simple. This can be accomplished with either the command-line argument --dockapp-mode simple or by modifying ~/.stalonetrayrc.
Openbox now treats the tray as the dock, and you can adjust its position by using the Openbox Configuration Tool. To run Stalonetray on start up, add the following to ~/.config/openbox/autostart:
stalonetray --dockapp-mode simple &
See also Stalonetray WM hints for OpenBox
Ion3
To run Stalonetray in Ion3:
$ stalonetray --kludges=force_icons_size,fix_window_pos
To include stalonetray in the statusbar, add the following to your configuration file in ~/.ion3/:
-- Create a statusbar
mod_statusbar.create{
screen=0,
pos='bl',
fullsize=true,
systray=true,
template="[ %date || %load || ... ] %systray%filler%systray_stalone",
}
defwinprop{class="stalonetray",instance="stalonetray",statusbar="systray_stalone"}
defwinprop{instance="stalonetray",statusbar="systray_stalone"}
defwinprop{class="stalonetray",statusbar="systray_stalone"}
See also Stalonetray WM hints for ion3
Troubleshooting
Icons do not have the desired size
To force the size of the icons to be equal to icon_size, launch stalonetray with the following arguments:
stalonetray --icon-size=16 --kludges=force_icons_size
This will force the size of all icons to 16×16 pixels.
Alternatively, one could add the following to the configuration file:
icon_size 16 kludges force_icons_size
See also
- http://stalonetray.sourceforge.net/manpage.html - Stalonetray manual page