Bug#1142087: ITP: snixembed -- proxy StatusNotifierItems as XEmbedded systemtray-spec icons

Francois Marier <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:55:12 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID	<20260715035512.GA350762__36128.3470805333$1784088339$gmane$org@reykjavik.dyn.fmarier.org>

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Francois Marier <[email protected]>
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

* Package name    : snixembed
  Version         : 0.3.3
  Upstream Contact: Steef Hegeman
* URL             : https://git.sr.ht/~steef/snixembed/
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: vala
  Description     : proxy StatusNotifierItems as XEmbedded systemtray-spec icons

While many status bars for simple X window managers do not (yet) support
StatusNotifierItem for displaying system tray icons, some software does not
fall back to the widely supported XEmbed-based tray icon protocol. snixembed
acts as a proxy between the new and old. (It does this by presenting itself
as a StatusNotifierHost on the session bus, and using GTK+3 to maintain
corresponding XEmbed tray icons.)