Trayer - A Lightweight System Tray For Your Linux Desktop

A viewer recently asked me about system trays. How do you get a system tray on a desktop and/or panel that does not include one out-of-the-box. Today, I'm going to share with you guys a neat little program called trayer.

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[alfonsoreyes]

Great application! I had working in my Ubuntu 18.04 in few minutes with `trayer --edge bottom --align right --distancefrom right --transparent true --padding 25 --iconspacing 10 --alpha 230 `

[aristotelispapageorgiou]

There are cases when the network is down, or dropbox faces some problems syncing or the sound is off for some reason. This is why you can have a sys tray (or a status bar).

[nekoill]

This is at least one of the most informative channels about Linux, god bless you, DT

[afonsosalbrecht]

okay, 60% of the video is DistroTube telling how he doesn't need a trayer, and the rest is about his configs! Congrats, i haven't learn anything about how to configure and use one!

[linuxrant]

I like how you open minds and subvert assumptions about how to use your computer. I personally use a 2 in 1 touch/stylus device with a tiler(I know, what a nonsense, right?). I would say that I still need a tray to switch between bluetooth devices, wifi-connections, volume and brightness controls... but even on a touch device I can hide all that tray stuff and use gestures to reveal certain control options...I think I am gonna explore that... I think I am reinventing android that way though...

[fuseteam]

everyone gangsta about systray untill the laptop shuts down due to inability to notice the battery level

[Griimnak]

I like having a systray for things like Discord, f.lux, caffeine, notification center. Battery status if on laptop.
Could be because I use Windows on my main desktop, but it this is essential to me.

[bendover]

+4k views and only 179 likes? Wth is wrog with these people!? Your work is awesome!

[lowrider]

Nice one dt. I use stalonetray in any wm without a systray inbuilt. And why? For one reason only (drumroll): To place volumeicon ;)

[primalpenguin]

This is great, because I've tried to get system tray icons to appear on my Polybar but just couldn't figure it out.

[nonamebear]

It is kind of the same thing with keyboards and using layers. You do not need to have/see individual keys if you can have them on a sepatate layer. It is efficent and saves on space. Goes hand in hand with how to use your UI.

[RodrigoStuchi]

really cool, trying with dwm, but de systray patch doesn't work well. This is a great alternative.
Thanks 👊

[hewfrebie]

Make a video about using using wordgrinner which is a terminal based word processor that gets the job done and gets out of the way.

[FinlayDaGk]

Didn't realize you where on Mastodon, followed :)

[thingsiplay]

You could use a system tray or panel hidden and show it when you need it only.

[wijaksanapanji]

Do you use dunst for notifications? Haven't seen videos about dunst on your channel,
Great vids, i don't use bar 😂

[fuseteam]

5:40 long is your motivation, untill you met dwm tagging :3

[TheModernGentlemam]

Can someone please explain how to use this thing? I've read the man page and it didn't help and I also can't find any documentation on arch or any video or blog tutorials. I'm completely lost on how to use trayer. Where do I get the icons? How do I get the icons to show up on xmobar? etc. I don't understand at all. Please help

[vladimirmikulic]

How did you make your top bar to look like that(display mem info, CPU load...). Do you use tiling windows manager for that?

[peacemekka]

This doesn't work well for me. I have a single monitor setup where I have a couple of system info scripts and a clock running on xmobar. The problem is these values fluctuate sometimes and the tray ends up clipping the text. I don't place it to the extreme right because then I have to force fully reserve space for the bar in my xmobar, which kinda looks odd. It would've been great if something was integratable into xmobar.
Not really a deal breaker though, just a convenience, I'm anyways living without a tray for now like you said.