TRAYER(1)

💖 TRAYER(1) — the girlies' guide to a tiny systray 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual, section 1. This is the whole vibe of trayer — sit down, grab a boba, we're doing this. 🧋✨

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✨ NAME ✨

trayer — a lightweight GTK2-based systray for UNIX desktop 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

trayer [--edge left|right|top|bottom|none] [--align left|right|center]
[--margin <size>] [--widthtype request|pixel|percent ] [--width <size>]
[--heighttype <pixel>] [--height <size>] [--SetDockType true|false]
[--SetPartialStrut true|false] [--transparent true|false] [--alpha
<value>] [--tint <color>] [--distance <length>] [--distancefrom
left|right|top|bottom|none] [--expand true|false] [--padding <size>]

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

trayer is a small program designed to provide systray functionality present in GNOME / KDE desktop environments for window managers which doesn't support that function. It's similar to other applications such as peksystray and docker. no cap, it's the little guy doing the big job. 💅

trayer code was extracted from fbpanel application, you can find more about it on it's homepage: http://fbpanel.sourceforge.net/ 🎀

You can find new versions of trayer and support on FVWM-Crystal project homepage: http://fvwm-crystal.berlios.de/ 🌈

trayer-srg was forked from trayer in January 2010 to add some fancy features and clean up code. It contains all changes from above versions as far as known. Code of trayer-srg can be found on github: http://github.com/sargon/trayer-srg ✨

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

like, here's every single flag, bestie. we do not gatekeep. 🫶

• -h, --help — prints help message and exits. your girl is helpful like that.
• -v, --version — prints version and exits. icon behaviour honestly.
• --edge <edge> — Use EDGE for orientation. Possible values for EDGE are left, right, top, bottom or none. The default value is bottom. 📍
• --align <alignment> — Orientation of docked icons inside the trayer panel. Possible values are left, center, right, or none. The default value is center. 🎯
• --margin <size> — Length of margin in pixels. The default value is 0.
• --distance <length> — Distance between trayer's window and screen edge (in pixels). When set to 0 the option has no effect. The default value is 0. 📏
• --distancefrom <edge> — Specifies which edge to calculate distance from, see --edge. The default value is top.
  • When --distance is 0 this option has no effect. (yes bestie, it just vibes there doing nothing 🙈)
• --widthtype request|pixel|percent|none — Determine how width is calculated.
  • request — Follow application icons' size, so trayer may shrink or expand dynamically. 🌊
  • pixel — Set a fixed size, given with --width option in pixels.
  • percent — Set a fixed size, given with --width option in percentage of a length of screen edge.
  • none — (it's giving mystery. that's all the manual says. 🤫)

The default value is percent.

• --width <size> — Width of a panel. When --widthtype=request this option has no effect. The default value is 100.
• --heighttype request|pixel|percent|none — Determine how height is calculated.
  • request — Follow application icons' size, so trayer may shrink or expand dynamically. 🌊
  • pixel — Set a fixed size, given with --height option in pixels.
  • percent — Set a fixed size, given with --height option in percentage of a length of screen edge.
  • none — (again, that's the whole description. periodt. 💀)

The default value is pixel.

• --height <size> — Height of trayer's window. When --heigthtype=request this option has no effect. The default value is 26. (yes the typo is canon, we keep it exactly as written, don't @ me 😭)
• --SetDockType true|false — Identify panel window type as dock. The default value is true. ⚓
• --SetPartialStrut true|false — Reserve panel space so that it will not be covered by maximized windows. The default value is false. 🛡️
• --transparent true|false — Use transparency. The default value is false. 🫧
• --tint <color> — Color used to "tint" transparent background. Color is given as a 24-bit C hexadecimal integer, for example: 0xff0000 is red, 0xff8800 is orange and 0x00ff00 is green. The default value is 0xFFFFFFFF. 🎨
• --alpha <value> — Percentage of transparency (0 - nontransparent, 255 - fully transparent). value should be a value between 0 and 255. The default value is 127. ✨
• --expand true|false — Specifies if trayer can accommodate extra space or not. The default value is true. 🫶
• --padding <size> — Number of extra pixel space between trayer's window frame and docked icons. The default value is 0. 🎀
• --monitor<monitor> — Define the monitor on which you like trayer to appear. Number of zero to number of monitors minus one, or the string "primary" are valid. The default value is 0. 🖥️

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Place trayer to the top right edge of the screen and prevent other fullsize windows to overlay it:

trayer trayer --edge top --align right --SetDockType true \
    --SetPartialStrut true --expand true --transparent true

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💀 BUGS 💀

Report bugs to the issue tracker: https://github.com/sargon/trayer-srg/issues

(we love a paper trail, bestie. tell them everything. 🫶)

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🫶 CONTRIBUTORS 🫶

The following people are or have been involved in the development of trayer:

• Maciej Delmanowski <harnir@users.berlios.de>
• Anatoly Asviyan <aanatoly@users.sf.net> — fbpanel
• Rafal Bisingier <ravbc@man.poznan.pl> — conversion of configuration using ~/.fbpanel/* files to commandline options
• Grzegorz Niewêg³owski <hoppke@dobremiasto.net> — code extraction from fbpanel
• Thomas Rydzynski — added new option 'distance'
• Keegan Carruthers-Smith <keegan.csmith@gmail.com> — fix align
• Yury Akudovich — added new option distancefrom option
• Jens Peter Secher <jps@debian.org> — various (debian trayer fork)
• Daniel Ehlers <danielehlers@mindeye.net> — multi monitor support, code cleanup and current maintainer.
• Stu Black — help closing a problem with wrong values in _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL
• Michael Weber — fix build problems, improvements cmdline parameter handling
• Johannes Bittner — primary switch for monitor selection
• Vladimir Murzin <murzin.v@gmail.com> — fixing transparency startup problem
• Corey Richardson <corey@octayn.net> — Found some default value fuckup
• Constantine Verutin — React on changes in monitor setup.
• Robbie Harwood — Fixup build
• Omar Sandoval — Fixups

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

This man page is written by Daniel Ehlers.

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 this one lives in the LOCAL section and it's trayer(1) — go forth, dock your icons, be the main character of your window manager. slay. ✨👑🎀