accessing the systray

agaffney has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there a module that will allow me to put an icon in the systray (freedesktop.org compliant...fluxbox, gnome, etc.)? Searching CPAN for 'systray' turned up nothing. I'm going to take a stab at writing a systray plugin for irssi, just because someone claimed xchat was better because of the systray integration :P

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Re: accessing the systray by ghenry (Vicar) on Jun 27, 2005 at 09:15 UTC
There is Gtk2::TrayIcon for Gnome. This follows The System Tray Spec for freedesktop.org. There's also Gtk2::TrayManager on CPAN and perlpanel from Debian. Not sure about other desktop environments though. HTH. Walking the road to enlightenment... I found a penguin and a camel on the way..... Fancy a yourname@perl.me.uk? Just ask!!!	[reply]
Re: accessing the systray by Joost (Canon) on Jun 27, 2005 at 09:22 UTC
Check out Gtk2::TrayIcon - but I'm not sure if that is a standards complient implementation. Otherwise the specs don't seem to be too complicated, so you might write your own implementation. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^2: accessing the systray by agaffney (Beadle) on Jun 27, 2005 at 17:05 UTC
I've never messed with tray icons before, but I have used GTK+ (python bindings...not my choice). It seems that the tray icon runs as it's own separate program (runs the GTK main loop). How would I make this work as an irssi plugin?	[reply]
Re^3: accessing the systray by Joost (Canon) on Jun 27, 2005 at 21:54 UTC
fork() && exec() maybe? see perlipc and perlopentut "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]