gtrayicon (1) Linux Manual Page
gtrayicon – 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 fileDeactivate 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