seapplet(1)

💅 seapplet — the setroubleshoot client GUI applet (manual page seapplet(1), from the General Commands Manual) ✨

okay bestie, sit down, we're learning a whole lil tray buddy today 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

seapplet — it's the setroubleshoot client GUI applet, no cap 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

seapplet

that's it. that's the whole invocation. she takes zero arguments, she's low maintenance, she's iconic 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so seapplet is a GTK-based GUI applet — yes, a real graphical one, we're in our desktop era 🎀 — and her whole job is to notify you when there are new SELinux alerts and then open sealert to help you actually deal with them. she's the girl in the group chat who goes "hey. hey. something happened. here, let me get the person who can fix it." 💖

here's the tea though: seapplet is normally started at login by the desktop session manager, so you do not need to run her manually. she shows up on her own, like a true main character 🌟 don't be out here launching her by hand for no reason, she's already there.

and one thing you absolutely need to know, fr fr: for seapplet to work properly, your desktop environment has to provide a System Tray implementation, because that's where the applet gets embedded. no system tray, no home for the lil applet. it's giving "nowhere to sit at lunch" 😭 so if your DE doesn't do system trays, this is the reason things might be weird. not a vibe, but that's the requirement 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these next, bestie, they're the rest of the friend group 🌈

• sealert(8)
• setroubleshootd(8)
• sedispatch(8)
• selinux(8)

💀 real talk: that System Tray requirement is a hard requirement, not a suggestion. if your desktop environment doesn't offer one, the applet has nowhere to be embedded. that's the whole deal.

2 July 2019 — that's when this lil page was written, and it's the seapplet(1) manual page, from the General Commands Manual 🎀 bye bestie, go check your alerts, mwah 💜✨