System tray and KDE apps?

[Bjørn T Johansen]

On Fri, 02 May 2008 13:44:02 -0700
"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> 
> >>>> Shouldn't this work? When I start kopete, the notification icon is created as a smal window in the upper left
> >>>> corner of the screen and not in the XFCE system tray? Am I doing something wrong or?
> > 
> > I am running Gentoo and using the latest stable version in Portage (4.4.2)
> 
> Could something like this be related?
> http://osdir.com/ml/xfce.user/2004-04/msg00183.html

Well, the result is about the same; I also get the icon in the little standalone transparent window...

> Did you start any other application that might have started a system 
> tray, and then killed it?  Apparently our tray doesn't work so well when 
> someone else takes over tray duties and then gives it up.

Not that I know of, and I can't find anything in the process list that looks like a systray app...

BTJ