dexgs / stalonetray

STAnd aLONE TRAY (notification area) implementation for X11

STAnd aLONE TRAY

Description

Stalonetray is a STAnd-aLONE system TRAY (notification area).x It has minimal build and run-time dependencies: the Xlib only. Stalonetray runs under virtually any window manager.

To start using stalonetray, just copy stalonetrayrc.sample to ~/.stalonetrayrc or to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/stalonetrayrc. It is well-commented and should suffice for a quick start.

Installation

Package managers are the most convenient way to install stalonetray. It is packaged for several Linux distributions and BSD variants. On Debian and Ubuntu, run:

sudo apt install stalonetray

On Fedora run:

sudo dnf install stalonetray

Building from source

Stalonetray uses autotools. It requires Xlib development packages to be installed. Building documentation requires dockbook and xsltproc.

On Debian and Ubuntu, run:

sudo apt install autoconf automake docbook-xsl libxpm-dev libx11-dev xsltproc

After that run:

aclocal && autoheader && autoconf && automake --add-missing
./configure

The following message should be displayed after a successful configuration:

*
* Debug                  : yes
* Native KDE support     : yes
* XPM background support : yes
* Graceful exit support  : yes
* Build documentation    : yes
*

Then run:

make
make install