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

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Jazz · Post by **Jazz** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:11 pm

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 · Post by **Flop** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:20 am

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

Flop · Post by **Flop** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:04 am

Well...

ryceck · Post by **ryceck** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:48 pm

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:

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<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>

laue · Post by **laue** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:50 am

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

example:

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kstart --window XMMS --skiptaskbar --iconify xmms -p

this will launch xmms, not put it in taskbar, not display it and start playing

i have installed the xmms-status-plugin

this setup works great for me..., so thanx to all of you

PS: if you want to define custom icons for xmms-status-plugin: make sure they are 22x22[/code]

user317 · Post by **user317** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:05 am

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

laue · Post by **laue** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:35 am

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

ksystraycmd --help

hambai · Post by **hambai** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:32 am

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 · Post by **Xeen** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 4:46 pm

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 · Post by **ryceck** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 7:43 pm

about the kdocker:
http://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!