Openbox system-tray issue (pidgin/skype)

hi everyone,
as im a fairly new linux user who migrated here from puppy linux, i still need to learn a lot.
i recently managed to setup my first arch system with openbox.
since i dont want to use a tray bar, apps like pidgin and skype get lost when minimized (which normally go to the system tray). i havent found and option in skype and cant access pidgin coz its starting minimized :(
is there any way to fix this ?

naequs wrote:
thx inxsible i will consider that if theres no other way!
@bharani: actually if i run skype again, it creates another instance saying that one is already running
Ops . I use dwm and used to run vuze like that.(Now i have a tray)

Similar Messages

Huge icons in xfce panel system tray

Hi,
i have huge icons in xfce panel system tray for pidgin and transmission... Any idea how to fix it?

Are you using xfce4-power-manager in xfce4? I can see that it appears that you are using the xfce4 panel, but it is not clear that you are using the rest of it. If you are, isn't it started by the .desktop file? In those files you can specify the icon used, so you might be able to simply change it to something more common to most icon sets.
Personally, I don't use icons or .desktop files, so I'm not sure that this is actually good advice. But it is the first thing that came to mind.

[SOLVED] KDE 4.5.2: lost icons of Pidgin, Skype... from System tray

Plasma crashed today and I lost, so called, "Default panel". After restart, I manually added panel, added System tray widget on it but System tray is no more displaying icons of non KDE applications such Pidgin, Skype and DeaDBeeF. Tried to change icon theme, played with icons folder mentioned in topic https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103689 but so far no luck. There are not even blank spaces instead of icons. If I add System tray widget to the desktop, it also don't have those icons on it and it have blank spaces instead, say, KNotes and Klipper.
Any help is appreciated.
Last edited by benke (2010-10-10 07:16:44)

File ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc was corrupted. I backed up it, deleted, restarted KDE, new file is created. Need to tweak desktop again but icons are shown correctly.
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=87660

Minimize Skype to system tray (no taskbar)

Hello,
How to minimize Skype 6.0.0.126 to system tray in Windows 8 ?
Thank you.

try this.
Go to, Skype, Click Tools >> Options... >> Advanced settings >> Uncheck "Keep Skype in the taskbar while I'm signed in".
Regards,
Tamim
Location - Dhaka | Bangladesh - Standard Time Zone: GMT/UTC + 06:00 hour
If one of my replies has adequately addressed your issue, please click on the “Accept as Solution” button. If you found a post useful then please "Give Kudos" at the bottom of my post, so that this information can benefit others.

Kopete + openbox + tint2, system tray icon won't spin problem.

Hello there guys.
I'm having a problem with kopete's icon in system tray. When I recieve incoming message the icon should spin around (works in kde) but in openbox+tint2 won't and I have no idea why not. This wouldn't be a problem if I'd use any other kind of notification than Mark taskbar entry, but I don't. Is there any specific setting in tint2 to allow icons move?

What system notification program are you using? If you don't have one, that could be the issue because the system tray is just a trayer replacement, not a notification window. Either xfce4-notifyd or something. If you really want the dependencies you can get kdeplasma-addons-applets-incomingmsg.
xfce4-notifyd is much less resource-hungry

[SOLVED] Openbox/tint2 (or trayer) -- nothing in system tray

Hi,
Just decided to try Openbox and see what all the fuss was about. I really like it and am fairly confident I'll be ditching Xfce quite soon. I've had some oddities come up, though...
- tint2 (and trayer, for that matter) show nothing at all (no icons, no nothing) in the system tray. I've started tint2 with this (stolen from elsewhere) just to try the tray:
# SYSTRAYBAR
systray_padding = 0 0 0
systray_background_id = 0
and trayer with this:
trayer --expand true --widthtype request --edge top --align right --SetDockType false
and nothing shows up. Is there some set of icons or package or communication that needs to be going on that isn't happening?
Thanks for any suggestions. It's mostly usable, but it'd be nice to get these issues resolved.
- Now solved (see update below): I really like the Still Dark II theme by Tawan but when I C-A-Left/Right to change desktops, none of the rectangle desktop icons in the pop-up pager thingy change colors. I just see four black rectangles with blue borders the color of the theme blue, but they don't show one solid one to indicate where you are. With other themes, this hasn't been a problem and I get one solid rectangle to indicate my current desktop position. For what it's worth, the same thing happens with xfzen-blue, too. What's might be the issue?
---( Update )---
Tawan responded to an earlier message I sent and helped sort everything out. For those interested, if you have no solid color when switching desktops, find the ../theme-name/openbox-3/themerc and correct/add these lines:
osd.hilight.bg: flat solid
osd.hilight.bg.color: #1994d1
This was exactly what I needed. Just replace the html hex color with what you want.
---( End Update )---
Last edited by jwhendy (2011-01-26 03:07:18)

Wow -- I shouldn't be allowed near a computer. Apparently you actually have to start something that shows up in the panel for... something to show up in the panel. I'm used to xfce where a battery monitor and wicd-client were always running from startup. Starting vlc was what did it for me. Seeing that darn cone show up was what made me commence slapping myself.

Skype freezes when I open it up from system tray a...

Whenever I try to open skype from system tray and when I start a chat with someone, Skype freezes and I have to wait for like 20-30 seconds before I am able to chat. I have a freshly installed windows 7 x64 and the newest skype version.

Same story for me! Ususally the other party can hear and see me before my end starts working. Except sometimes takes minutes for Skype to stabilize before I can use it. Then it seems to work. Using Win 7 and Skype 7.1.0.105. The problem has existed since installing 7.1. Makes using Skype a real pain!
Internet Explorer is resident on computer, but I use Foxfire for browsing.

Skype: no system-tray icon with Arch (+ xfce)

When I close Skype (the one and only skype window), skype is still running in the background. When I run Zenwalk with xfce, there is a skype icon as part of the taskbar, which indicates that skype is still running in the background. This icon does not pop up in Arch and xfce.
Here in the forum rdoggsv gave a hint to run "killall skype". However I would prefer to have the system-tray icon (and the right-click to close skype). By the way: skype on debian has this icon as well (see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=14874). How can I get this xfce notification icon in Arch, as long as Skype is running?

Are you sure you have system tray enabled on your xfce panel? I don't use xfce, but skype shows up correctly in the tray using trayer... I also remember it working correctly with xfce panel tray in the past so unless the latest version of xfce is buggy it should work without problems.

Issue with System tray icon

So, I am developing an application that utilizes a system tray icon.
It's all pretty standard: when you click close, it hides the window and puts a system tray icon in the system tray, when you right click the tray icon, it gives you a menu with options to restore the window or to exit, and if you double left click the icon, it restores the window.
Also, any time you restore the window, the system tray icon is removed.
All that stuff works great, its just that instead of putting the image that I want as the icon, the icon is just blank - transparent - nothing. There is a space where it should be, but the image just isn't there.
The image I'm using is a gif that measures 240 x 240 pixels, and has transparency.
When the window is hidden, the program does this:
     try {
                tray.add(trayIcon);
            } catch (AWTException e) {
                System.err.println("TrayIcon could not be added.");
            }to add the icon to the tray.
Here's my initialization code. It's in a method called initSysTray, which is called once in the window's constructor.
if (SystemTray.isSupported()) {
            tray = SystemTray.getSystemTray();
            //image that will be used for System tray Icon
            ImageIcon image = new ImageIcon("Icon2.gif");
            //action listener for the exit menu option
            //that is part of the tray icon's pop-up menu
            //it ends the application
            ActionListener exitListener = new ActionListener() {
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    System.out.println("Exiting...");
                    System.exit(0);
            //action listener for the restore menu option
            //that is part of the tray icon's pop-up menu
            //it unhides the window and removes the tray icon
            ActionListener unHideListener = new ActionListener() {
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    System.out.println("Unhiding");
                    setVisible(true);
                    tray.remove(trayIcon);
            //Action Listener that recieves events from tray icon
            //basically if someone double clicks the tray icon
            //then the window is restored
            ActionListener actionListener = new ActionListener() {
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    System.out.println("Unhiding");
                    setVisible(true);
                    tray.remove(trayIcon);
            //create the pop-up menu
            PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu();
            //create the exit option
            MenuItem defaultItem = new MenuItem("Exit");
            defaultItem.addActionListener(exitListener);
            //create the restore option
            MenuItem unHideItem = new MenuItem("Restore");
            unHideItem.addActionListener(unHideListener);
            //add the options to the menu
            popup.add(unHideItem);
            popup.add(defaultItem);
            //create the tray icon
            trayIcon = new TrayIcon(image.getImage(), "Bluetooth Remote by D Law", popup);
            trayIcon.setImageAutoSize(true);
            trayIcon.addActionListener(actionListener);
        else{
            System.out.println("System Tray not supported");
        }So, any help with my dissapearing icon would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, are you not suppose to catch possible exceptions thrown by the TrayIcon constructor? :
//create the tray icon
            trayIcon = new TrayIcon(image.getImage(), "Bluetooth Remote by D Law", popup);Try surrounding this line of code with a try and catch block. Referring to the API
documentation, there are 4 possible exceptions that can be thrown. Errors may
be present there, and we need a way to identify it. :)

Compiz Fusion standalone system tray problem

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)

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.

KDE 4.8.0 upgrade - application icons not showing in system tray

I updated to KDE 4.8.0 through pacman yesterday, and I noticed that system tray is not working as it should. Icons for some applications do not show, while other work OK.
For example, Akregator icon appers in tray, while icons for Skype, AppSet or the Java application I'm developing do not. I notced that notification ballons for these apps pop up at upper left corner, instead of lower right.
Anybody got some idea what might be wrong? Maybe QT version issues?
One more question: how can I bring up these application windows when they do not show in tray?

When you click on the arrow do they show up in the list ? that list is for hidden apps, if they are right click configure and see here http://userbase.kde.org/images.userbase … ings-2.png

System Tray Status Error Message

HP CP1025nw. XP. with USB connection. Printer works fine, but gives error message on screen, "HP Systems Tray has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvienience." "Please tell Microsoft about this problem. (send or Don't send)"
I get 2 copies of this error message (one at a time) wnen the computer is booted up (even if the printer off and USB unplugged) and 2 copies in addition for each "print command" from all various application sources. The printer works fine and prints are fine and there no functional issues. If the driver is uninstalled, then there are no error messages at boot-up. Latest HP driver is installed, same problem as with driver on OEM disc.
(a screen copy of error message is avialable)
Ronpro

Hi Ronpro,
Welcome to the HP Forums.
I see that you are getting a message "HP Systems Tray has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvienience." "Please tell Microsoft about this problem".
I will be happy to help you.
I believe the error is for the HP Device Settings options for the printer maintenance located on the Windows system tray.
I would run a full uninstall and reinstall. Turn off any startup programs interfering and temporarily turn off the Antivirus Software to get the full software installed properly.
Disconnect the USB cable first.
Uninstalling the Printer Software.
I would disable all the start up programs to make sure something in the background isn't causing any issues.
Go to start, run, type in msconfig, click the Services tab.
Click to select the Hide All Microsoft Services check box.
Click Disable All, and then click OK.
Click on the start up tab across the top, select disable all, apply, OK and restart the computer.
Temporarily turn off the Antivirus software.
Then reinstall the printer software again.
Full Feature Software and Driver.
Test the printer.
Check to see if the Device Settings feature will now open.
Cleaning the Paper Path and Exterior.
Restart the computer to see if the error comes up again.
Then go back in and enable the startup programs and Microsoft services and turn the Anitivirus software back on.
If the issue comes back after turning on the startup programs, I would leave everything unchecked except the Antivirus Software.
Please let me know if you need further assistance.
Thank you for posting on the HP Forums.
Have a great day.
Please click “Accept as Solution ” if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution.
Click the “Kudos Thumbs Up" on the right to say “Thanks” for helping!
Gemini02
I work on behalf of HP

Laserjet CP1025nw HP system tray has stopped working

I bought this printer a month ago and about a week ago I started getting the error“HPCP1020SM.exe (64 bit) has stopped working.” then click close then“HP system tray has stopped working.” appears click close. the printer will still print but these errors continue to come up every time I print. I called HP support but they have no clue. Thanks for who ever can help.

Hi Have you tried installing the basic driver, and the basic driver update to see if you have the same issue? Let me know if you have the same issue using the basic driver. Can you also provide me a screenshot of the error message you are receiving? Firmware update: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=lj-86491-4&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&os=228&product=4052972&sw_lang= Basic driver:http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=lj-90357-1&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&os=4063&product=4052972&sw_lang= Basic driver update:http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=lj-98162-1&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&os=4063&product=4052972&sw_lang=

WR110 and Windows 7 + Im connected to Internet but Icon in system tray shows red X

Hi all,
I just upgraded both my notebook and Desktop, both of which are wireless. The Notebook connected just fine, and the system tray shows connection bars. However my destktop is also connected, but it shows the red x. Not sure what I need to do to stay connected and have Wireless strength bars reappear. When I click the connection it says " The settings saved on this computer do not match the requirements for the network". Also when I click on the red X in the system tray, the connections pop up, and I see the green bars and it says connected, but a few seconds later it goes to the red X, but Im still connected to the internet. I have ATT DSL and they recently bridged the router to the DSL modem using PPPoe, but that was before I upgraded both PCs to 7 and I did not have this issue prior to upgrading.

Quack,
I gave that a try, and changed my SSID. On my notebook, it of course lost the Internet connection, I saw the new wireless network, and typed in the PW and it connected without issue. However the DT which is where I am having the issue, is still doing the same thing. I am connected to Internet as that is where Im typing this email from, but the 5 bars in the lower are still show that X even tho Im connected. It does say the Security types do not
match, so I would go in and change to WPA Personal, TKIP, and type in the password, but still nothing. I have noticed that when I enable and disable my Wireless adapter in the Desktop, 2 icons come back, one for the adapter, and one called. Microsoft Virtual WiFI miniport adapter, which I have disabled, but it does not make any diff if its enabled or not.

Bootcamp Icon missing from system tray...

On the 1st computer (iMac) that I installed BootCamp with Win 7, I have an icon in the lower left system tray for changing the booting choice.
Today I installed BootCamp on my wife's new Mac Mini and the icon is missing from the system tray. While it was about 6 weeks ago that I put BootCamp on my iMac, I don't remember doing anything that cause the Windows system tray to display the boot choice icon for BootCamp/Win 7.
Anyone have an idea about how I can get that icon to appear on the Mac Mini.
Both systems are running Snow Leopard with the latest software.

Macaby there are two separate components of Boot Camp. First is Assistant which runs on the Mac side of things from OS X. It creates/deletes the Windows partition which is necessary to install Windows. Next the Boot Camp Panel software which is installed once you have successfully installed and are running Windows. It allows tweaking of the Apple hardware from within Windows. It is installed using the OS X disc and does not jeopardize your installed Windows OS in any way. This disc also contains the hardware driver necessary to optimize the hardware in Windows. In my experience this disc has never started via autorun so you will most likely have to locate the Boot Camp folder and run the setup.exe file manually.
Don't know how much your wife uses Windows but if it's running well enough then you may want to leave it alone. Check device manager in Windows for any red or yellow punctuation marks. This will indicate a potential driver issue in Windows. Also check the Windows Experience Index for performance issues. A 1 anywhere indicates a driver issue. If you have no driver issues and Windows is running well enough you may want to leave it at that.

Openbox system-tray issue (pidgin/skype)

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for