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Does anyone have some hints / tips / experience with making a cross
platform systray icon? It should work on Windows, Gnome and KDE at
minimum.

I've seen the win32all code which is very similar to the C code I've
written before for Windows. It would be a small irritation to have to
integrate its event loop with whichever GUI framework I'm using for
the rest of it though.

I don't know how to make a systray under KDE/Gnome though, but I think
freedesktop has made it a lot easier now. I didn't manage to find a
python example - does anyone have one?

Ideally I'd like someone to tell me that PyQT, tkinter or PyGTK does
it all for me, but from my searching on the subject I doubt it is
going to be that easy!

Thanks
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Nick Craig-Wood <> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick

Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> Does anyone have some hints / tips / experience with making a cross
> platform systray icon? It should work on Windows, Gnome and KDE at
> minimum.
>
> I've seen the win32all code which is very similar to the C code I've
> written before for Windows. It would be a small irritation to have to
> integrate its event loop with whichever GUI framework I'm using for
> the rest of it though.
>
You might do a search for TaskBarIcon in the wxPython toolkit.

Duane

Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> Does anyone have some hints / tips / experience with making a cross
> platform systray icon? It should work on Windows, Gnome and KDE at
> minimum.
>
> I've seen the win32all code which is very similar to the C code I've
> written before for Windows. It would be a small irritation to have to
> integrate its event loop with whichever GUI framework I'm using for
> the rest of it though.
>
> I don't know how to make a systray under KDE/Gnome though, but I think
> freedesktop has made it a lot easier now. I didn't manage to find a
> python example - does anyone have one?
>
> Ideally I'd like someone to tell me that PyQT, tkinter or PyGTK does
> it all for me, but from my searching on the subject I doubt it is
> going to be that easy!
>
> Thanks
Google turned this up.

http://radio.weblogs.com/0110159/gems/systray_py.txt

Hope it helps.

-Larry

Larry Bates <> wrote:
> Google turned this up.
>
> http://radio.weblogs.com/0110159/gems/systray_py.txt

I couldn't get that to work - wxwindows bitrot maybe?

I did find an example which worked under windows & linux

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/475155

Thanks anyway

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Nick Craig-Wood <> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick

TheSeeker <> wrote:
> Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> > Does anyone have some hints / tips / experience with making a cross
> > platform systray icon? It should work on Windows, Gnome and KDE at
> > minimum.
> You might do a search for TaskBarIcon in the wxPython toolkit.

Yes thank you (and everyone else) who replied with that - that looks
like just the thing.

I was able to create a systray icon that worked under linux and
windows which is great!

Now to learn wxpython

Thanks

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Nick Craig-Wood <> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick