Minimizing XMMS to the system tray.........

Jazz · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:11 pm Post subject:

Yeeha !!!!!!!!

Man U're a GENIUS !!!!

Finally got it working the way i wanted it to be !!

Well... but , there still remains one mysterious problem !!

When i do what u said.. i get the xmms to behave PERFECTLY as desired but my opera also dissappers from the taskbar !!

Though it appears in the alt+tab list .. i cant see it in the taskbar ! but xmms is neither seen on the taskbar nor on the alt+tab list..

My devilspie.xml is as follows :-

<devilspie>
<flurb>
<matchers>
<matcher name="DevilsPieMatcherWindowName">
<property name="application_name" value="XMMS"/>
</matcher>
</matchers>
<actions>
<action name="DevilsPieActionSetWorkspace">
<property name="workspace_index" value="1"/>
</action>
<action name="DevilsPieActionHide">
<property name="skip_tasklist" value="TRUE"/>
</action>
</actions>
</flurb>
</devilspie>

Any ideas are greatly appreciated !! after i get this thing done.. i'll post a nice how-to based on ur instructions so that any one wanting to do the same can do it very easily as described !!

Bye,
Jassi

AND THANK U VERY MUCH for getting me outta this !!

Flop · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:20 am Post subject:

How can-I use these --skiptaskbar --skippager options without kstart? (I use fluxbox)

Flop · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:04 am Post subject:

Well...

ryceck · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 195

Ok so I emerged devilspie, created the ~/.devilspie.xml and started the program.
Nothing happened.... I looked @ my XMMS window-name and noticed that my window-name isnt XMMS.
Its XMMS - %currentsong

Can that cause problems? or is there another strange reason why it don't work?

Heres my devilspie.xml:

laue · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:50 am Post subject:

if you want to use kstart: define the --window option with the name of the window

example:

user317 · Guru Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Posts: 314

kdocker will make a system tray for any app. its pretty handy

laue · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:35 am Post subject:

actually, in kde3.3, a kde command exists just for putting things in the system-tray. see:

ksystraycmd --help

hambai · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 5

kdocker works for me (minimizing xmms in the tray), i haven't tested anything else though. the only problem is that there is no ebuild for kdocker and i had to install it manually but i believe an ebuild will emerge soon

Xeen · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 23

I can't find kdocker in emerge. Is there an ebuild, is it bundled in one of the KDE packages, or do you have to hand install it?

ryceck · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 195

about the kdocker:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67173

An ebuild can be found there

Ow and kdocker does exactly what it should do: target a window and it makes a systray icon for it. No more useless taskbar space eaten up by XMMS: YAY!