System Tray for KDE apps

[Bernhard Walle]

On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 at 16:00 (-0500), Ariel Arjona wrote:
> 
> Being this my first post to this list, and my first week using xfce, I 
> apologize in advance for my newbieness
> 
> I installed RC3 a few days ago, and I noticed something with KDE apps. 
> The apps that use the system tray, in my case the latest Kopete and 
> Ksirc do not display their icons in the xfce tray but as a small 
> separate window. Moreso, this window is not repainted because  when I 
> resize it, I see trails of the icon as it moves. GTK apps, however do 
> use the systray properly (xchat and gaim in my case).

That's because the current version of KDE doesn't follow the system tray
standard of freedesktop.org but it's own standard. That's because the
freedesktop.org standard is younger than KDE2 where the system tray
standard of KDE was introduced. I think they will change this in future.

However, there's a patch written by Benedikt Meurer which integrates KDE
system tray applications in the taskbar or system tray of xfce4. Here it
is: http://varmint.moongroup.com/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2003-July/006619.html 
You might apply this patch.

Regards,
Bernhard

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