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RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 1564 Location: Germany

Hi.

I want to have an icon for a menu entry.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

This example should do what you want.

RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 1564 Location: Germany

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843

I used a more unix-ian philosophy for sit. I figured we could use gtkdialog (or Bacon, tk, xdialog, yad, getgui, xmessage, 9menu, pygtk,...) for the left and right click menus. Since the tray icon updates itself whenever the icon file changes, a gtkdialog program only needs to update the icon (with freedom to do whatever else). The only catch is it is useful for the dialog tool to have a "near mouse" option (most do). It _should_ greatly simplify the necessary logic for building any quick and dirty tray app (its basically gtrayicon on steroids, except public domain / any OSI licensed)

RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 1564 Location: Germany

@technosaurus
What do you mean? Your program sit?

Meanwhile i've made some work on this.

Created a Taskbar Menu containing default applications with default icons as menu entries like i've added to the wbar

This menu shows up if left-clicked on the tray icon. If i do right-click on the tray icon, it shows up the openbox menu, which is started through a little script. The script itself calls xdotool using "key ctrl+alt+w" as parameter.

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843

Seaside posted a link to it in your other tray app thread (I thought this was the same thread when I poste), but here is the link
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76431
I'd say the only thing it may be missing at this point is to check args and image file existences (right now it expects that to already be done externally)