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TheJoe

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Registered: 2009-12-20

Posts: 12

Does a hidden tray exist?

I use standalone Openbox and one of the things I find it hard to live with is the absence of a tray.

I've tried stalonetray but it's just not working.

So what I'm thinking of is a tray that sits hidden and when I press a certain key combination it appears and I can click what needs to be clicked.

Does one exist? Or can we configure stalonetray to do such a thing?

BowlSmoker

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Registered: 2009-10-09

Posts: 27

Re: Does a hidden tray exist?

tint2-svn (in aur) comes with a tray.

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: Does a hidden tray exist?

You might just want to get a full panel that has a tray. Most of them support auto-hide of some kind.

Also, take a look at "docker". It's nice because it takes up almost no space when there aren't any tray icons.

Oxyd

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-01-17

Posts: 167

Re: Does a hidden tray exist?

You can run stalonetray in Openbox's dock and set the dock to autohide.  I don't know if Openbox allows you to show the hidden dock with a keypress, but chances are it does.

Edit: Yup, it does.

Last edited by Oxyd (2009-12-31 19:25:50)

TheJoe

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Registered: 2009-12-20

Posts: 12

Re: Does a hidden tray exist?

Oxyd: Thanks, I'll look into that.

I guess I should try adding a tray to my current tint2 panel. I guess I can lose today's date and replace it.