I don't think so, it require the compositor to be tied to the shell
and a lot of hacky code. XEMBED is a terrible thing, a security
nightmare and is also totally inflexible (no themes, *almost* no way
to have a transparent background, no accessibility support and so on).

References:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-latest.html
http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html

On 5 June 2015 at 16:49, Jeferson Lesbao <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Didn't know about this X11 limitation. Using compton as an composite manager
> can make it possible ?
>
> Regards,
> Jeferson
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Elv1313 . <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Not really, this is an X11 limitations, they simply forbid it by
>> design. Some WMs use compositing to "fix" this, but Awesome doesn't
>> have it's own compositor.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Emmanuel
>>
>> On 5 June 2015 at 16:43, Abraham Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Another multi-monitor question:  is it possible to have the system tray
>> > (where icons like nm-applet show up) appear on every monitor?
>> >
>> > I tried this and it now flickers unreliably between each monitor based
>> > on
>> > which client is focused:
>> >
>> > in rc.lua, around line 202:
>> >  right_layout:add(wibox.widget.systray())
>> >
>> > as opposed to
>> >   if s == 1 then right_layout:add(wibox.widget.systray()) end
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Abe
>>
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