in reply to accessing the systray

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.
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