trayer - a lightweight GTK2-based systray for UNIX desktop

trayer -h

trayer -v

trayer [--edge left|right|top|bottom|none] [--align left|right|center] [--margin <size>] [--widthtype request|pixel|percent ] [--width <size>] [--heighttype <pixel>] [--height <size>] [--SetDockType true|false] [--SetPartialStrut true|false] [--transparent true|false] [--alpha <value>] [--tint <color>] [--distance <length>] [--expand true|false] [--padding <size>]

trayer is a small program designed to provide system tray similar to these in GNOME / KDE desktop environments for window managers which does not support that function. It is similar to other applications such as peksystray and docker.

System tray is a place, where many applications put their icons, so they are always visible. Such icons may present status of an application and allow user to control the program.

trayer's code was extracted from fbpanel application, you can find more about it on its homepage: http://fbpanel.sourceforge.net/.

This programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-h

Show summary of options and exit.

-v

Show version of program and exit.

--edge left|right|top|bottom|none

Specifies a screen edge to use.

--align left|center|right

Specifies an align of the icons.

--margin <size>

Specifies length of margin (in pixels)

--widthtype request|pixel|percent

Specifies method of calculating trayer's window width:

request

Follow application icons' size, so trayer may shrink or expand dynamically.

pixel

Set a fixed size, given with --width option in pixels.

percent

Set a fixed size, given with --width option in percentage of a lenght of screen edge.

--width <size>

Width of trayer's window. Ignored when --widthtype is set to request.

--heighttype request|pixel|percent

Specifies method of calculating trayer's window height:

request

Follow application icons' size, so trayer may shrink or expand dynamically.

pixel

Set a fixed size, given with --height option in pixels.

percent

Set a fixed size, given with --height option in percentage of a lenght of screen edge.

--height <size>

Height of trayer's window. Ignored when --heighttype is set to request.

--SetDockType true|false

Identify panel window type as dock.

--SetPartialStrut true|false

Reserve panel space so that it will not be covered by maximized windows.

--transparent true|false

Use transparency.

--alpha <value>

Percentage of transparency (0 - nontransparent, 256 - fully transparent)

--tint <color>

Color used to tint transparent background. Color is given as a 24-bit C hexadecimal integer, for example: 0xff0000 is red, 0xff8800 is orange and 0x00ff00 is green.

--distance <length>

Specifies distance between trayer's window and screen edge (in pixels)

--expand true|false

Specifies whether trayer may accomodate extra space when there is too much icons.

--padding <size>

Extra space between icons and trayer window's border.

fbpanel(1)

Anatoly Asviyan <aanatoly@users.sf.net> - fbpanel

Rafal Bisingier <ravbc@man.poznan.pl>

Maciej Delmanowski <harnir@users.berlios.de>

Grzegorz Nieweglowski <hoppke@dobremiasto.net>

Thomas Rydzynski

This manual page was written by Tomasz Melcer <liori@interia.pl>.