Albin, I couldn't find any existing program to get put text into the gnome panel, so I eventually built something:
https://gitorious.org/jasonwoof/now-playing-d It just reads stdin, and displays the most recent full line in your notification area. I do something like this: mkfifo ~/tmp/systray-text while true; do cat ~/tmp/systray-text; done | ~/bin/now-playing-d then I can: echo "$(notmuch count tag:unread) unread" > ~/tmp/systray-text I'm still using gnomeConfig and set xmonad as the gnome window manager. Recently I got gnome not to start gname-panel (because gnome-panel broke) and I've been running xmobar instead. Just wanted to say that you don't have to run gnome-panel. You can disable gnome-panel with gconf-editor, and say that your panel command is /bin/true or something. -- Jason
