snixembed(1)

📦 version 0.3.3, in arch rolling, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu stonking

💖 snixembed 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're about to talk about snixembed — a little daemon from the General Commands Manual section (section 1, for the uninitiated ✨). she is small, she is mighty, and she is the reason your system tray isn't a whole mess.

✨ NAME ✨

snixembed — proxy the StatusNotifierItem protocol to the XEmbed System Tray 🫶

like. she's a translator. a lil bilingual icon middle-manager. no cap.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

snixembed [--fork]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one optional flag, girlies. we love a minimal queen 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The snixembed daemon proxies StatusNotifierItems as XEmbedded System Tray icons.

periodt. so basically: some apps wanna show up in your tray the StatusNotifierItem way, and some trays only speak the XEmbed way, and snixembed is the friend who relays the messages between both group chats so nobody gets left on read 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --fork — so here's the deal: she sets up in the foreground first, then forks to a background process. it's giving "let me make sure everything's good before I dip" 🙈

this is literally the whole reason you'd use it: it can be used to avoid race conditions with applications that expect a StatusNotifierWatcher to be ready on startup. so if your app is that friend who shows up early and panics when nobody's there yet — that's the situation. start these applications only after snixembed --fork has completed. not before. before is chaos. 🔥

💀 BUGS 💀

ngl, not all of the StatusNotifierItem specification is supported. she's doing her best but she's not doing everything 😭

current support includes: mouse events, context menus, tooltips. that's the list. that's what we got.

there's also limited AppIndicator support — limited, bestie, as in "she can hang, but don't ask her to do a whole routine."

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Maintained by Steef Hegeman, who is assisted by other open source contributors. shoutout to every single one of them, fr fr 🫶

More information and up-to-date sources can be found at https://git.sr.ht/~steef/snixembed.

and that's the whole page!! this one's from the 2022-07-25 era of snixembed(1) — a little vintage, a little iconic, still serving 🌈💜 mwah, go forth and proxy responsibly ✨

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