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gtrayicon(1) General Commands Manual gtrayicon(1)

NAME

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

string to appear as tooltip
activate command
deactivate command
icon to show for 'activate' action
icon to show for 'deactivate'
custom menu to display for right button
start in 'activated' state (default: 'deactivated' state)

EXAMPLE

Activate action: start webfs (web server) setting a pid file
Deactivate action: kill that webfs instance


--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>