• From: Lincoln, UK
  • Registered: 2008-11-20
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Topic: [Solved] Custom notification area applets

I am not sure if this post belongs in help & support, but here goes...

I want to have some custom system tray/notification area applets. Basically, I would like the applets to behave in a similar fashion to how launcher applets work on some panels, such as the Xfce and GNOME panels; therefore, I would like to be able to assign a command and icon of my preference. So, before I go write my own code for this, I was wondering, does anyone know if something like this exists already?

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Re: [Solved] Custom notification area applets

I'm not aware of anything like that for notification area applets, but the Crunchbang Panel as a taskbar and you can add your own program launchers and assign them whatever icon and command you want:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … el/page/3/

I have one launcher run qiv and then have it change my wallpaper and exit.  Is that what you meant?  There is also a tray on that, but I'm not sure how easy it is to write your own tray applications for that.  It currently has a search and a console that popup when you click on them.

  • From: Lincoln, UK
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Re: [Solved] Custom notification area applets

Hey ledomira smile Thank you for your reply. The CrunchBang Panel is great, but I am fairly happy with tint2 at the moment. I have just found a neat little program called gtrayicon, it seems to have the features I require. smile

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Re: [Solved] Custom notification area applets

I've actually been using adeskbar like this.  I position it in the left hand bottom corner, after I resize it so that it is the same height as tint2.  Then I re-size and position tint2 so that it sits to the right.  It looks and works like something you'd see in a KDE environment.  I use this because it is "more familiar" for my wife and daughters who use windows at school and work.


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Re: [Solved] Custom notification area applets

^ I do the same thing and for the same reason. Except I keep my tint2 / adeskbar vertical.

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Re: [Solved] Custom notification area applets

Also if it is going to be something you're coding from scratch it is relatively easy to make a tray app, if it will be in python you can look at wattospm for an example(don't look too close, it's spaghetti code I need to clean it up)

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