I cannot for the life of me get the freedesktop.xorg 'system tray' protocolspecification to work with GNOME or KDE, even though I think they both supportit. Unfortunately, I have had the same frustrating failure trying to post this issue to the archaic freedesktop.xorg Gmane newsgroup archiver (allowing me only 80 characters to explain my problem). Based alone on that mentality, I'm not surprised the following fails.
Hello gang, happy holidays (if you celebrate), I am using XFCE and have added qjackctl to the Applications Autostart section under settings. When I reboot and login I don't see the application icon in the notification area like when I manually start the app.
These are the only two window/desktop managers I have attempted (both Ubuntu 10.10). I am using:
For GNOME, I get a little 2-pixel wide sliver next to my pandora 'tray icon'when I execute the below program. For KDE, I get a gray icon. I would expectto see a non-uniform colored icon, or an all black icon, because I have onlyinitialized the width and height of the buffer variable below, not the pixel values.
Unfortunately, after spending several hours on this, I have given up and decidednot to support this feature. In case I'm just doing something stupid, I wantedto post this information here so others can learn from my mistake. Otherwise,if this is a bug, perhaps I will include this feature later when it is resolved. Regardless, I would be happy to try suggestions from others or attempt any lessons learned you may have.
I have referenced the following sites for guidance in resolving this (withoutsolution):
I have more hyperlinks, but since I'm new to this site I am un-allowed to post them.
I am well aware there are other libraries to accomplish this such as gtk. For my scenario, that is not in the domain of acceptable solutions.
Here is the command I used:
And here is a generic program to re-create the problem (Ubuntu 10.10):