On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:21:29 +0200 Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote: > Sharon Kimble: > > Cinnamon and Gnome 3 both have a tray that holds all notification > > messages until their read and deleted. These messages are ones like > > saying that your backup has just started, or you’ve got 3 new > > emails, nice simple easily forgotten ones. But, what is this > > 'tray'? Can it be used in fluxbox, or other lighter DE's? > > I don't know about fluxbox, but most window managers reserve space for > the tray in some kind of panel or status bar. Your real question > probably is which application puts the information you need into the > tray. One example: > > $ apt-cache search tray icon mail > checkgmail - alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux via Atom feeds > claws-mail-trayicon - Notification area plugin for Claws Mail > xul-ext-firetray - system tray extension for Thunderbird/Firefox > alike apps zim - graphical text editor based on wiki technologies > The notification tray is completely separate from the system tray, and is I think, a separate package, and that’s what I'm looking for, or something similar. > If your window manager lacks a tray area you can try the package > "trayer". There already is a system tray in fluxbox, and even though I use tint2 as my panel, it still has a system tray in it. I did try running 'trayer' but it failed because there was a system tray already running. 'trayer another systray already running' Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, LibreOffice 4.1.0.4 Registered Linux user 334501
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