Add an Icon to The System Tray

hhamid · 09-10-2005, 12:15 AM

How can I add an icon to the system tray by a bash script or C++ program?

For example I had written a bash script which, checks wheter the internet connection is available or not (for example by pinging a site); And if it is available I want to add an icon in the tray to indicate this; How can I do it?
I think X should have an interface for it...

And also how can I do it in C or C++ program? As I check QT toolkit doesn't have an interface for this;

tuxdev · 09-10-2005, 10:00 AM

Try looking at the code for the Gaim desktop icon plugin.

hhamid · 09-13-2005, 03:14 AM

I have found the answer; For example in KDE

"ksystraycmd" run a program and add an icon for it in the tray;
see "ksystraycmd --help-kde"

XavierP · 09-13-2005, 05:11 AM

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