> I'm not sure if it's a trayer or sawfish issue but will first ask you > guys if anyone can reproduce the problem at all. > > I'm running sawfish 1.3.1 without gnome and needed a standalone tray > utility so started to use trayer > http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=trayer > I downloaded the source from debian, also a necessary patch, compiled > and ran it. > > Everything seems fine, the tray works and docks the icons (nm-applet, > battery usage, skype, etc) but as soon as I press the middle mouse > button on the background in order to bring up the sawfish main menu, > sawfish crashes. This means that windows don't get focus, edge > flipping stops working, etc. The only thing I can do is Ctrl+Alt+F1 to > terminal mode, killall -9 trayer, Ctrl+Alt+F7 back to GUI mode and > then observe that sawfish is still dead, the headers of the windows > are black, etc. Then go back to terminal mode, killall -9 sawfish, and > restart X. > > So my questions are: > > 1. Does anybody use trayer + sawfish? > 2. If yes, does it work properly? > 3. If not, what tray application do you use (I tried stalonetray but > it's very buggy, exiting an application like rhythmbox and restarting > it again for example causes the rhythmbox icon to not appear on the > tray. I have to kill stalonetray, restart it, in order to get > rhythmbox show up again.)? > 4. If you've never used trayer, can you please try compiling it and > seeing whether you have the same problem as me?
After looking into this issue a bit further I discovered a number of tray/panel applications, but unfortunately none of them work: 1. docker - http://icculus.org/openbox/2/docker/ - Opens a window, not something that sticks to the background root window 2. PerlPanel - http://freshmeat.net/projects/perlpanel/ - Doesn't compile 3. pypanel - http://pypanel.sourceforge.net/ - Compiles but segfaults (32bit vs 64bit issue) 4. peksystray - http://sourceforge.net/projects/peksystray - Opens a window, not something that sticks to the background root window After all of this I'm out of ideas. Trayer came the closest to actually work, but it crashes sawfish as I described in the first post. Any input from you guys would be very helpful, I'm sure! Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown
