WM Hints

On this page you can find a set of simple hints/HOWTOs on how to make stalonetray work with some WMs. If your WM is not listed here and you have some hints to share, send them to me, and I will post them here (or, you can help me to set up a wiki :).

FVWM

To run stalonetray swallowed by FvwmButtons, add the following snippet to ~/.fvwm/config (or ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc).

*FvwmButtons: (16x32, Frame 0, Swallow (NoClose,UseOld) "stalonetray" `/home/busa/bin/systemtray`)

Be sure to add no_shrink true to your ~/.stalonetrayrc (or specify ––no–shrink on the command line) to tell stalonetray not to change its geometry.

ion3

ion3 manages KDE icons by itself (and does not support _KDE_NET_SYSTEM_TRAY_WINDOWS property), so under ion3 stalonetray will only manage freedesktop.org icons. If you want ion3 to treat stalonetray as a dockapp, run stalonetray in withdrawn mode (–w) and enable ion3 dock module with is_auto=true. However, this means that ion3 will do funny things with stalonetray window geometry. To avoid this, add the following code snippet (thanks to Sergej Pupykin) to ~/.ion/cfg_dock.lua (here *dock* is the name of the dock).

defwinprop{class="stalonetray",instance="stalonetray",target="*dock*"}
defwinprop{instance="stalonetray",target="*dock*"}
defwinprop{class="stalonetray",target="*dock*"}
defwinprop{is_dockapp=true,target="*dock*"}

WindowMaker

Stalonetray does not work as a dockapp in WindowMaker, use Docker instead. Moreover, NW is the only grow gravity that works reliably in WindowMaker.

Openbox

To run stalonetray as dockapp, use withdrawn mode (–w). When background mode is set to parent (–p), this looks particularly nice. Dock position can be configured using obconf (see screenshot below, click for larger version).

ObConf screenshot

Enlightenment (E17)

E17 does not set root pixmap property, but you can emulate root transparency using parent background. If you want fuzzy edges or tinting which do not work with parent background, you need to set wallpaper using some external tool like Esetroot.

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Screenshots

stalonetray 0.7
Stalonetray 0.7 with background tinting and fuzzy edges on.
stalonetray 0.6.2
Stalonetray 0.6.2 (swallowed by FvwmButtons).
stalonetray 0.4
Stalonetray 0.4 (swallowed by FvwmButtons).

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