How to add program icon on tray zone in JWM

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How to add program icon on tray zone in JWM

#1 Post by slapshot »

It is very simple to add a program icon at JWM tray zone. Imagine you want to add a home button to open your home directory. Here is what you have to do:

- Open your root directoty with rox-filer. Remember to press H key to show hidden files (they begin with a . (dot)).
- Find a file called .jwmrc-tray and open it.
- Add a row like this near to the other similars:
<TrayButton popup="Open home directory" icon="home.png">exec:rox</TrayButton>
- Restart X Window

And now you will have a new button with a new icon.

I didn't have home.png, which is 16x16 icon, on my PuppyLinux so I operated in this way:

- I opened /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/home.xpm with mtPaint and from menu Image - Scale canvas so I scaled it to a 16x16 icon and I saved it in /usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons/home.png

Put this row before the others but after Menu row if you like to have home directory before the other icons.

That's all folks ;-)
Last edited by slapshot on Sun 12 Nov 2006, 19:08, edited 1 time in total.
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#2 Post by slapshot »

Ooopss, I didn't know there was an utility to manage this:

http://www.puppyos.net/forum/azbb.php?1162708194

Anyway, I believe it is useful to know how to handly modify these setting ;-)
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