Alltray, The Linux, BSD, Unix, handy program to
send any application into the system tray
Yesterday I found an interesting small proggie that enables you to
tray in a fast manner any unix application
to the GNOME, KDE's system tray.
Alltray also works with many other desktop environments and window
managers.
This application made my life a bit easier since now I'm able to
send into the tray my mail application of choice (Thunderbird), or
as called in Debian icedove. To do that all I had to do was:
$ alltray icedove . To make this behaviour
permanent you can use:
The program
alacarte which allows you to edit your
Gnome menus in a fast and comfortable manner.
For instance on Debian run
alacarte Go to Internet
-> Icedove Mail/News click Properties and change the default
command:
icedove %u change with
alltray
icedove %u
Congrats your Thunderbird will now go to tray any time you run
it.
Now you can do the same with any other application that lacks tray
support.
Here is a link to
Alltray's
website