Putting apps onto System Tray

[Erik Harrison]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:39:11 +0800, Seo Boon, NG <sbng at employees.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a new xfce4 user. I converted from icewm. I would like to find out how to
> go about putting an apps on the system tray. I run a perl script from the
> terminal via a command such as "(xterm|aterm|rxvt) -e perl.script". I would very
> much like to put this instance of perl script under the system tray.
> Is there an option available for me to do that? Basically I need to have
> (xterm|aterm|rxvt) added into system tray. I'm looking for the similar feature
> in icewm where I specify the following entries in ~/.icewm/winoptions to get
> rxvt and Gaim onto the system tray.
> 
> .icewm/winoptions:rxvt.tray: Exclusive
> .icewm/winoptions:gaim.tray: Exclusive

You can't tell the Window Manager to put the window in the tray.
Instead, the tray is uses the freedesktop notification area standard,
and apps put themselves in the tray.

-Erik

> 
> http://computing.ee.ethz.ch/sepp/icewm-1.2.6-mo/icewm-12.html
> 
> Does such a feature exist in xfce4? Or would I need to modify rxvt to achieve my
> objective?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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