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jaideep_jdof

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From: Delhi, India

Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 311

system tray for DWM & WMII[Solved]

Is it possible to add a system tray to DWM or WMII, of yes then please tell me how.

Last edited by jaideep_jdof (2007-08-04 14:07:51)

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: system tray for DWM & WMII[Solved]

I don't think that a Systray is within the specifications of those Windowmanagers. You could try out something like trayer in floating-mode though.

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: system tray for DWM & WMII[Solved]

trayer --expand true --widthtype request --transparent true --alpha 255 --edge top --align right &

That's an app trayer, mentioned above. That command line starts it transparent so it's fairly unobtrusive, and it expands only as needed. You can change the location with the edge and align commands.

jaideep_jdof

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From: Delhi, India

Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 311

Re: system tray for DWM & WMII[Solved]

thank a lot for the help.

brncmp

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Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 21

Re: system tray for DWM & WMII[Solved]

yes this nice but how do you keep it below other windows?

brncmp

Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: system tray for DWM & WMII[Solved]

Well I can only speak for dwm. Pipe information from your .xinitrc directly into the "bar" of dwm....

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cercasi2

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From: Kreuzberg 61

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 6

Re: system tray for DWM & WMII[Solved]

Although this is solved (and old)....

Has anybody tried this with nm-applet in dwm? I'd like to use nm-applet because it also allows me to choose my 3g connection easily.

Can I just:

.xinitrc

trayer [options....] &
nm-applet &

[stuff] | dwm

thanks ;-)

EDIT: it worked with

.xinitrc

(sleep 1 && /usr/bin/ck-launch-session) &  # do this before nm-applet... I don't know why
/usr/bin/stalonetray --geometry 16x16+150-586 --icon-size 16 &
(sleep 2 && /usr/bin/nm-applet) &
conky -c /home/seb/.conky-dwm | while true; do /usr/bin/dwm > /dev/null; done;

Last edited by cercasi2 (2009-02-18 13:44:07)