KDE apps' tray icons are not showing on system tray

Wei-Tsun Sun wsun013 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 8 21:40:41 CET 2008


Hi,

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 13:47:49 +0000
"Olivier Fourdan" <fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Wei-Tsun Sun <wsun013 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have run into a problem that the system tray plugin from xfce4-panel only shows
> > GTK programs' tray icons but not KDE ones. For instance Kaffeine and kbeam's tray icons
> > are not shown.
> >
> > I am on the 4.5.91 unstable.
> 
> KDE used to have its own non-standard system tray protocol, maybe the
> apps that you are using do not use the EWMH standard?
> 
> You may want to try to build xfwm4 with "--enable-kde-systray", that
> will make xfwm4 act like a proxy for KDE systray.

I have already compiled xfwm4 with that option, it does not overcome the problem.

Any advice ?

Willie



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