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NAME¶
gtrayicon - Generic tray icon for GNOMEDESCRIPTION¶
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