gtrayicon1

Overview

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)

Examples

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