Re: How to add battery monitor script to systemtray or toolbar?

Dear All

Thanks for all these ideas!  I'll try a few things out and report back.

Best wishes

Ivan


On 22/01/2015 11:55, Michael M. Tung wrote:
> Hi!
>
> To add a program to the Fluxbox systemtray I use alltray:
>
>    https://launchpad.net/alltray/+announcements
>    http://alltray.trausch.us/ (main site currently down)
>
> Highly recommendable. E.g. to run Telegram in Fluxbox one
> can use in the .initrc
>
>    alltray -H -C -- /usr/local/bin/Telegram &
>
> Best,
>        Mike
>
>
> Nable [[email protected]] wrote:
>>> Those both sound worth a try.  However, they both seem a bit heavyweight.
>>>
>>> Is there no way to do what I actually want to do? (I've been using dwm
>>> for a while and the status bar was essentially just a shell script).
>> It looks like there's fixed list of tools that can be added via Fluxbox's
>> 'session.screen0.toolbar.tools' configuration option and showing
>> the output of shell script isn't among them (patches?).
>>
>> Next idea is about putting something into systemtray.
>> If icon with tooltip suits you, then you can try `yad' tool, see here:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20344674/bash-tool-to-put-an-icon-on-taskbar
>>
>> If you need text that is always shown, there are rather simple solutions
>> using pygtk, e.g.: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-157545.html
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4708583/text-overlay-for-tray-icon
>>
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