[SOLVED] How to Add a Tray in herbstluftwm

[keshav-uses-linuxMember]

chndz wrote:

hlwm is my preferred WM. If you’re asking about a systray, then you can add a tray to polybar through one of its modules

yeah, but i wanted to stick to the stock dzen2 for now just because of the hassle to learn a whole new program with it’s seperate config vocabullary and language.
really appriciative of the wishes and the advices you gave which is rare to find in these forums!

[keshav-uses-linuxMember]

anti-apXos wrote:

For a system tray, you can also use trayer (from the Debian repos), which is just nothing but a system tray, so it can be laid on top of dzen or whatever panel you use that doesn’t otherwise provide a system tray.

thanks that seems very appealing as it can work by laying itself on top of the dzen2 window.

So, i tried it and added this in my pannel.sh

sudo apt install trayer

~/.config/herbstluftwm/panel.sh

trayer --edge top --align right --margin 0 --height 16 --width 100 --widthtype pixel --distancefrom right --distance 160 --iconspacing 7 --padding 5

this gave me an app tray with the height of the defualt pannel that comes with antix linux, herbstulfwm config

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by keshav-uses-linux.
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[keshav-uses-linuxMember]

anticapitalista wrote:

Do have you tried what @chndz suggested?

yeah, i very well do tried it! so what now?

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[blur13Member]

chndz wrote:

Also, if you really lean on keybindings for your workflow, you can incorporate sxhkd into your hlwm config. This allows program-specific keybindings to have a dedicated configuration space (allows keychords like emacs) while your windowmanager-specific keybindings remain in the hlwm config file.

Sorry for the off-topic, but this caught my attention. Could you elaborate on this? Having wm-specific keybindings hijacking program specific keyboard shortcuts is a bit annoying.

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keshav-uses-linux wrote:

anticapitalista wrote:

Do have you tried what @chndz suggested?

yeah, i very well do tried it! so what now?

Did it do what you want?
Why have you marked the thread as solved?

Later – OK you posted the answer in the first post.
Glad to know you found a solution.

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[keshav-uses-linuxMember]

anticapitalista wrote:

Later – OK you posted the answer in the first post.
Glad to know you found a solutio

Moral of the Story sometime i feel like people don’t understand how usefull and Convinent an Simple and concise thread is in a situation of hurry. I request all forum people to think about new users in a hurry searching for a problem on google and landing on a thread litter with unnecessary replies and paragraphs of text that doesn’t actually solve the problem directly. what a hellscape it must be

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[keshav-uses-linuxMember]

So, on reboot, the stalonetray doesn’t seems to load even though its added to the “~/.config/herbstluftwm/pannel.sh” file.
when i start it from cli, it works but not on reboot?

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