Fluxbox 0.9.13

Take a look at this screenshot; it shows both gaim and Azureus minimized to icons next to the clock, as some such applications do (especially on Windows).

I am trying to find a way for me to 'force' other programs to do the same -- I'm pretty particular about my iconbar space and I don't use the slit. Things like SETI@Home (BOINC), Thunderbird, xChat, the Mozilla Calendar, et cetera; things I have open often but don't need taking up space -- most of these do not have native options to do such (as luckily gaim and Azureus do).

Has anyone been successful in doing something similar?

-- Poetics

This is not an iconify issue - it is the system "tray" where some apps designed to provide functionality with a small tray "applet". Only apps designed with a system tray "applet" will display here. Not a Flux expert, but this is my experience...

Sadly I assume nobody has a list of such programs that have a System Tray applet/mode?

Well, it really depends on the developer of the app - whether they decided they needed a tray icon and whatever functionality they decided to add via the tray icon. Gaim has a tray icon, but it's the only app I use that has one...sorry.

I did just discover that someone wrote a SysTray app for Xchat, for the record (it's now mentioned in XChat's FAQ), and there are a few icon themes floating around for it. Doesn't flash on channel messages, sadly, but at least it's something.

Just posted for those looking for similar.