"systray drawer"

bitlord bitlord0xff at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 15:14:56 UTC 2015


On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 15:24:12 +0100
Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On three of my Rawhide machines I have a drawer bottom left that has 
> icons exactly as the old systray did ­– only this is a much better
> way of handling it. However my fourth Rawhide machine doesn't have
> this drawer, and I really would like to have it.
> 
> The Web is very little help here as everyone just says "systray is 
> dead", "systray icons are legacy icons", etc. Clearly the GNOME folk 
> (or Fedora add ons folk) just changed rather than removed the systray.
> 
> The question is does anyone know how this systray gets started so I 
> can find out why it isn't starting on my fourth Rawhide machine?
> 

It should be there automatically if there is any application which uses
it, so it isn't visible while there is not application in systray. 
Not sure for rawhide, but on 3.16.x f22 (probably same packages now in
rawhide)


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