On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Uli Schlachter <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 30.11.2011 09:56, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> [..]
>> The "shared" system tray *doesn't* show up when I move my mouse
>> pointer to another screen, but it *does* show in the new screen if I
>> move my mouse *and* toggle between two tags of the new screen.
>
> Whatever wibox is redrawn last steals the systray from the other wibox.
>
>> Is there a better way of showing the system tray automatically at the
>> same time in all screens?
>
> Sorry, but there isn't. The problem is that the systray isn't drawn by
> awesome. It just tells the systray icons "hey, you, I got some space here,
> why don't you use it for drawing yourself?". However, we can only give a
> single space to the icons.
>
> So that means that systray icons can only be visible in a single spot.

Ok, that explains the behavior I saw.  So there can be only one visible
systray and I can at least shuffle it around by having multiple wiboxes
share it.  That works, sort of...

Thanks!

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