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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: Discuss-list <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: Bas van Gils <Bas.vanGils AT cs.ru.nl>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] xfce systemtray
  • Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:32:24 +0100

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 06:22:24PM +0100, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:36:55PM +0100, Bas van Gils wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I suspect something is buggered in Xfce 4.2.0. I just tried to add the
> > 'systemtray plugin' to my panel and that gives me the error:
> >
> > could not create panel item 'systemtray'
> >
> > To reproduce, remove ~/.config and ~/.cache, start xfce, try to add the
> > systemtray to the panel. Can anyone confirm this? thoughts on how to fix
> > it?
>
> Confirmed, I'll see if I can find anything on the xfce list about this.

And here's the solution: disable the system tray in the taskbar
(settings -> taskbar) and it will work in the panel. Apparently the
plugin checks if another system tray is running and refuses to load
then. Overall a good idea, but the message could be a bit better ;)

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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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