On Wednesday 19 April 2023 20:07:56 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote: > On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 17:57:12 +0000 > > William Morder via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Back when I first jumped ship from KDE, and found my way over to TDE, I > > did bring up this issue, but nobody seemed to have heard of the trick, > > whatever it was. For now, I just keep the "pkill ksystraycmd" command in > > a shell, so that I can hit return and kill it when the systray gets too > > cluttered with those ghost icons. > > > > If I can kill them with this command, however, yet the programs still > > keep working, then those ghost icons are not really essential, so I would > > like to suppress them altogether. > > I did a little more poking around. > > grep through your collected settings files and scripts for any mention > of ksystraycmd, because calling it for every program does not seem to be > default setup. The man page says: > > ksystraycmd - Allows any application to be kept in the system tray > > I have never seen an instance of this thing running on my system that I can > recall, probably because I have no interest in using the systray as a > mini-taskbar. > > So you must have set this up on purpose, That could be, although I don't remember doing so. On the other hand, I did deliberately drag that shortcuts folder to the systray, because I can access almost anywhere in my system quickly. It could be that that shortcuts folder is itself part of the problem, but I don't want to think about it yet. > and you may need to change the > options being passed to the program (it has a fair number) to get rid of > your "ghost icons". Or there may be a bug in the program itself, unless > it's a lot more commonly used than I think it is. > > (Or you can just schedule your pkill command to run from cron > periodically.) > > E. Liddell I'll do some reading on ksystraycmd and dbus, see what I can find. The weekend is coming. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
