> On Monday 11 February 2008 01:40:10 Peder Stray wrote: > > Anyone had any problems with the amarok tray icon while running fvwm under > > gnome? > > > > I noticed that it never appears where it shoul when using fvwm, but it > > does while running metacity. Grip, which also makes a tray icon works > > with both fvwm and metacity. So i guess it is some kde vs fvwm stuff that > > doesnt work as it should. > > > > Any ideas? > > That seems to have something to do with how KDE handles tray icons, not fvwm > issue. I use fvwm and stalonetray for displaying tray icons and non-kde apps > work fine e.g. psi and gtk-gnutella. But almost all KDE apps create small > second window with the tray icon in it instead of being swallowed into tray.
the problem is related to the kde-specific implementation of the systray. this behavior can also be observed using trayer or any other non kde-native tray application that does not implement the kde-specific systray protocol. to workaround this, run the app via $ appbin && dcop kded kded loadModule kdetrayproxy in case of, e.g., kopete: $ kopete && dcop kded kded loadModule kdetrayproxy regards, christian