# Stalonetray

Stalonetray is a stand-alone freedesktop.org and KDE system tray for the X Window System. It has full XEMBED support, minimal dependencies and works with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager. Window managers that are reported to work well with stalonetray are: FVWM, Openbox, Enlightenment, Ion3, Compiz, Xmonad and awesome.

## Installation

Install stalonetray from the official repositories. Once installed, copy the `stalonetrayrc` file to your home directory. Note that you should do this as a regular user.

    $ cp /etc/stalonetrayrc ~/.stalonetrayrc

## Configuration

### Openbox

To run Stalonetray in Openbox, issue the command:

    $ stalonetray --dockapp-mode simple

To run Stalonetray on start up, add the following to `~/.config/openbox/autostart`:

    stalonetray --dockapp-mode simple &

Alternatively, you can change the `~/.stalonetrayrc` line:

    # dockapp-mode none

to:

    # dockapp-mode simple

Openbox now treats the tray as the dock, and you can adjust its position by using the Openbox Configuration Tool. To run Stalonetray on start up, add the following to `~/.config/openbox/autostart`:

    stalonetray &

See also Stalonetray WM hints for OpenBox

### Ion3

To run Stalonetray in Ion3:

    $ stalonetray --kludges=force_icons_size,fix_window_pos

To include stalonetray in the statusbar, add the following to your configuration file in `~/.ion3/`:

    -- Create a statusbar
    mod_statusbar.create{
        screen=0,
        pos='bl',
        fullsize=true,
        systray=true,
        template="[ %date || %load || ... ] %systray%filler%systray_stalone",
    }

    defwinprop{class="stalonetray",instance="stalonetray",statusbar="systray_stalone"}
    defwinprop{instance="stalonetray",statusbar="systray_stalone"}
    defwinprop{class="stalonetray",statusbar="systray_stalone"}

See also Stalonetray WM hints for ion3

## Troubleshooting

### Icons don't have the desired size

To force the size of the icons to be equal to icon_size, launch stalonetray with the following arguments:

    stalonetray --icon-size=16 --kludges=force_icons_size

This will force the size of all icons to 16×16 pixels.

Alternatively, one could add the following to the configuration file:

    icon_size 16
    kludges force_icons_size

## See also

- http://stalonetray.sourceforge.net/manpage.html - Stalonetray manual page

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