Compiz Fusion standalone system tray problem

Question

Hello everyone,
My name is Ivan and this is my first post on the forums. I've been using Arch happily for about two years now and managed to solve all my problems using this magnificent forum as my main source for help.
Anyway, since I had some spare time today I figured giving Compiz Fusion a try after using Openbox for quite some time. Thus far, I like it and I really see its potential, I'm experiencing however some minor issues which I would like to get resolved. First and most important is the system tray, which doesn't seem to function correctly. Why? Well, I use tint2 as my panel (although I would like to get rid of it eventually when I get used to compiz) and it starts together with compiz using a simple script.
#!/bin/bash
(sleep 5 && tint2) &
(sleep 5 && tilda) &
fusion-icon
I use sleep to make sure the panel loads after Compiz, but I tried to remove it and it didn't solve my problem. My problem is namely that as soon as everything is started all I see in my tray is the fusion-icon. Which is fine, but the first thing I do next is power up Pidgin which doesn't show up at all. I've tried google and these forums but just couldn't find anything similar to my problem. The weird thing is, when I fired up Steam to play CounterStrike Source in Wine the icon showed up, but there was a gap between the fusion icon and the newly created Steam icon. Therefore I'm still not entirely sure whether this problem is caused by Pidgin incompatibility with Compiz or simply some kind of configuration issue.
It is also worth to note that using any other (standalone) system tray program (stalonetray, trayer) I have the same issue. The main reason I need a system tray in the first place is because of Pidgin and the fusion-icon thingy which seems pretty handy to change settings on the fly, so I would really like to get this working if possible.
My second question, be it minor is Conky. I rekon we all know this program since a desktop isn't a desktop without Conky. Anyway, is there a way to tell Compiz NOT to maximize over it, since I have this nifty horizontal bar running across my screen which I would like to have visible at all times. In OB I simply set the layer to desktop in my conkyrc and told OB to obey a 20 px rule for the top of my screen. Is such a thing possible in Compiz or is there some other workaround which may give me the same effect?
I thank you all for your time and hope that somebody might be able to help!
Kind regards,
Ivan
EDIT: Ok, something more I can say is that when I start pidgin and then restart tint2 the icon DOES show up, but if I exit pidgin and restart it the icon won't come back...also, the gap I was talking about after starting Steam dissapeared when I completely closed pidgin.
Last edited by geniuz (2010-04-11 00:30:15)

Answer 1

I have managed to solve my problems now, I think there is some kind of bug in the Tint2 system tray because it turns out that after I reconfigured and fired up stalonetray everything seemed to function. As for my Conky question, I found out that that window placement and rules can do a lot!
Now that I've found the perfect WM for myself, my next step is making all of this work on a clean Arch64 install.