Re: mixer_applet2 to system tray

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 02:40:58PM -0800, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
> I'm kind of confused what's an applet and what's an item for the
> system tray since I was told on this list that applets work with the
> panel and not the system tray. This is consistent with the fact that
> /usr/libexec/battstat-applet-2 is an applet and will not work with the
> system tray only the panel, gnome-power-manager on the other hand
> works with the system tray. However nm-applet works with the system

nm-applet is not an applet. Unfortunately the developers named it that
way.. That tray thing is the only exception.

> tray although it's called an applet. In addition when I launch gnome,
> mixer_applet2 shows up on the gnome system tray and not the panel
> which made me think that I should be able to use it with any
> freedesktop.org compliant system tray.
> 
> So I'm sufficiently confused as to what to expect. Is there a way to
> get mixer_applet2 run with any tray?

No, as it is an applet (unlike nm-applet).

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Regards,
Olav