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prochy

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2010-04-02

Posts: 9

System tray for Sway (wayland)

Hello,
I have free week so I thought I will play a little with wayland, I tried gnome and kde and both worked perfectly so I decided to look for something closer to what I use normally (which is i3 and openbox, depending on my mood). I found sway, which is pretty good, but missing one must have for me, and that is system tray. I tried running some trays and panels (lxqt-panel, tint2, xfce4-panel, stalonetray), it worked but sway only saw them as normal windows, so not really useful (is I want it part of panel and on all tags).

So my questions are:
Is there any system tray working with sway?
Is there any wayland wm similar to openbox?

Thanks for any tips

ur6lad

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-06-23

Posts: 34

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Re: System tray for Sway (wayland)

Another one question:

Is there any keyboard layout switcher or just tray applet that show current layout? For sway or wayland.

Something like that

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Run Arch on MSI Cubi 2, wayland+sway

zayn7lie

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Registered: 2023-07-02

Posts: 31

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Re: System tray for Sway (wayland)

I think waybar is what you are looking forward to.
You could simply find it in AUR.

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2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,645

Re: System tray for Sway (wayland)

zayn7lie, this topic is seven years old and the OP has not been back since 2019. Please do not necrobump.

Closing.