Questions tagged [tray]
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How to list system tray icons and their processes?
I am writting a BASH script to monitor a program's status. That program is close source and I have no control over it. It can create an icon in system tray.
What I need is knowing if currently there is an icon created by that program on system…
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KDE: how to get rid of IBus sys tray icon and keep Zoom
This is a variant of this question. But the provided answers either don't seem to work or would entail not being able to have Zoom (cf below).
Situation:
I run Kubuntu 21.04 with KDE Plasma 5.21.4
Zoom requires IBus. I have Zoom and I need it.
IBus…
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Increase System Tray Icon Size in KDE
How can I increase the size of these System Tray Icons? :
Update: In Debian 11, KDE Plasma 5.20.5, there is now an option to scale system-tray icons to the panel's height. Here's is a short video showing that. Thanks goes to KDE!
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Thunderbird tray icon for mail notifications
I was trying to write a script which would add a new mail icon to my system tray, but apparently Thunderbird does not support checking for new mail from the command line.
I've tried a number of plugin, but they all seem to have only a vague…
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How to define a certain order for tray icons in i3
I'm using the i3 window manager and I want to define some rules for tray icons order. By default, they are arranged in order of their application launch times. Is there are any way to configure an order for them? E.g.:
Show Thunderbird icon;
Then…
anlar
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How to minimize Thunderbird to tray in GNU/Linux/Debian?
How can one minimize Thunderbird to the tray bar in Debian 10/KDE?
Using bintray didn't work when trying to install it (sudo apt-get install birdtray) I get:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
birdtray : Depends: thunderbird but it is…
mYnDstrEAm
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gajim blinking trayicon notification
Gajim has a (nasty) trayicon notification option that blinks the Gajim icon when you have new messages. You can cancel this behaviour via the ACE's trayicon_notification_on_events option. But what I would like to do is to change the icon to…
Sardathrion - against SE abuse
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Start Akregator in system tray
I have added Akregator to the list of startup applications, but it opens up window every time I boot into my system. Is there a way to make it not open the window and start silently in the system tray?
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How to change icons and tray icons in Gnome?
Even though I like using Gnome, this issues drives me crazy and even makes me consider switching to KDE.
I think the tray icons are quite useful for some application, and for others they are even essential. Since they are always visible, some of…
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System tray icons won't pop out
My KDE system tray icons is quite standard (time, network connection, sound, etc).
Usually, clicking on one of those icons makes a pop-up appears, and allows e.g. to select the media to mount, to change the volume, etc.
Something like…
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"New messages" count for Thunderbird on Taskbar
I would like to see the "new messages" count number on my taskbar, like Google Mail, for example something like:
Inbox(2) - Mozilla Thunderbird
I found FireTray, but it doesn't quite work, the taskbar remains unchanged even when I have new…
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What's the right way to monitor systemd services status
I'm trying to figure what's the right way for me to be notified when some systemd service is having problems. Manually checking systemctl status isn't a sustainable option; at the very least I want to have a simple tray icon, like just green or red.…
Dmitry Frank
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google chrome tray icon broken in gnome 3.6
Google Chrome starts up with the correct tray icon but when restarted it has the broken tray icon. Has anyone filed a bug report about this? And is there any workaround at present?
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wmctrl showing and hiding tray programs
Hello there im trying to make my onboard hide/show with a keyboard shortcut (i know ironic, please don't ask why) however i couldn't find a way to do it in their manual, it only shows programs that are windowed programs that can go to tray however…
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Doubled system tray icons in Xfce
I have Red Hat based system with Xfce DE and installed Skype last version from official site. When I running it (only once, with one user account) in system tray I seeing doubled Skype icon, and not only Skype as you can see on the screenshot.
How…
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