embed systray in rox-panel?

[mikewalsh]

@Dry Falls :-

Umm.....'kayyy. Can you elaborate?

Like, refresh my memory, please! What IS a ROX-panel? Am I right in thinking that's what ROX uses to create the 'panel' at the bottom of my desktop?

And, um....."systray"? You mean the "notification area", yes? Or something else?

Mike.

[geo_c]

@Dry Falls :-

Umm.....'kayyy. Can you elaborate?

Like, refresh my memory, please! What IS a ROX-panel? Am I right in thinking that's what ROX uses to create the 'panel' at the bottom of my desktop?

And, um....."systray"? You mean the "notification area", yes? Or something else?

Mike.

A rox panel is very handy and I use them in F96 as a vertical panel. I create, start, and toggle them on/off with this script someone on the forum provided, and sorry I can't remember who anymore:

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#!/bin/sh
f=/tmp/flag
if test -f $f
then
  rox -r=
  rm -f $f
else
  rox -r charm
  touch $f
fi

And you can populate the panel by dragging items from a rox browser window. I just fired one up in KLV-spectr to see if would run, because I have rox installed. It worked great! But I didn't thoroughly test it. I think I will now. I used them in KLV-Spectrwm way back in the early stages before @Sofiya did such a nice job adding the polybar to it. Now it's about my favorite OS of all of them.

[MochiMoppel]

I've lost the link to Jemima's work in the murga forum. Hard to find in a search 'cause there're about a gazillion things she was responsible for in the old vintage puppies.

Maybe this one?

See also section "Panel applets" in chapter 7 of the ROX-Filer User Manual

[Trapster]

Wow, I was the first to comment in the thread that MochiMoppel linked to.....almost 15 yrs ago!!!!

carry on.....

[rockedge]

@Dry Falls Thinking about this and suddenly and idea

A member (who quit the forum) wrote C program examples that put things onto a system tray and panels. It's only examples but I did take and modify the code to toggle X10 devices on and off and indicate the state. I use it on the very latest KLV-Airedale's and it works on F96-CE_4 to put the icon on the XFCE4 and JWM tray.

Let me dig out the examples.....they need to be compiled and is in C coding. Track down the topic and posts describing it.

Found one example I modified but it is close to the demo, slightly altered to toggle an X10 module via a USB transceiver:

[dogcat]

viewtopic.php?p=52778#p52778

May be useful, maybe not.