GeekTray is a yet another freedesktop.org system tray implementation for X11. It provides a keyboard-oriented UI that is higher affinity for tiling window managers.
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Keyboard-oriented UI
All of the actions are accessible both from a mouse and a keyboard.
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Fully customizable
All of the key bindings and the UI styling are fully customizable by the configuration file.
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Lightweight GUI implementation
GeekTray is a lightweight GUI implementaion written by Rust, which don't use any GUI toolkit such as GTK. There is only the dependencies of some low-level libraries.
You can download the binary for Linux/amd64 from the release page.
GeekTray does not show any window on the screen when started for the first time. To show the window, you must use the key binding for it (Default: Super + `).
| Key | Action | Global |
|---|---|---|
| Super + ` | Toggle window | ✅ |
| Q | Hide window | |
| Escape | Hide window | |
| 1 | Select 1st item | |
| 2 | Select 2nd item | |
| 3 | Select 3rd item | |
| 4 | Select 4st item | |
| 5 | Select 5st item | |
| 6 | Select 6st item | |
| 7 | Select 7st item | |
| 8 | Select 8st item | |
| 9 | Select 9st item | |
| J | Select next item | |
| Down | Select next item | |
| Ctrl + N | Select next item | |
| K | Select previous item | |
| Up | Select previous item | |
| Ctrl + P | Select previous item | |
| L | Emit left click to selected item | |
| Return | Emit left click to selected item | |
| H | Emit right click to selected item | |
| Shift + Return | Emit right click to selected item |
You can customize the key bindings and more by the configuration file. It is available in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/geektray/config.toml. The configuration file is generated when geektray started for the first time.
The tray icon window created by Wine isn't set a title. Additionally, The process that created window is not the application itself, but exeplorer.exe. So we can't get any information for the tray icon.
There is the patch for Wine to work-around this issue.
No, because there are few applications using StatusNotifierItem at this time.