gtrayicon - Man Page
Generic tray icon for GNOME
Description
Generic tray icon for GNOME is a small utility which allows to add a icon to the system tray that can be used to trigger customized enable/disable actions.
Options
- --tooltip=string
string to appear as tooltip
- --activate=cmd
activate command
- --deactivate=cmd
deactivate command
- --activate-icon=icon-path
icon to show for 'activate' action
- --deactivate-icon=icon-path
icon to show for 'deactivate'
- --menu-file=menu-path
custom menu to display for right button
- --activated
start in 'activated' state (default: 'deactivated' state)
Example
Activate action: start webfs (web server) setting a pid file
Deactivate action: kill that webfs instance
- gtrayicon \
--activate="/usr/bin/webfsd -k /tmp/pid.file -r /var/www" \
--deactivate="cat /tmp/pid.file | xargs -ipid kill -TERM pid"
Menu
For an example on how to write a menu file,see
/usr/share/doc/gtrayicon/examples/sample.menu
See Also
Website: http://gtrayicon.sourceforge.net/
Author
Gtrayicon was written by Javier Valencia (javiervalencia80 at gmail.com) This Man page was written by Taylor LeMasurier-Wren <ripps818@gmail.com>