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My experimentation with amarok prompted me to search for a system tray replacement for my preferred window manager, windowmaker. At the time I found docker which is more than sufficient with the only drawback I saw being it could only hold for system try icons and that's it. I mentioned this to my friend, Chris, and he pointed out wmsystray which does essentially the same thing except that is puts little scroll buttons on the dockapp to allow more than four icons. Also, docker is written for openbox and is compatible with windowmaker using the -wm switch whereas wmsystray is made with windowmaker in mind from the get go as far as I can tell. The only crappy thing I ran into was it just won't compile on Slackware-current (almost 11 at this point). I had to resort to grabbing the rpm, using rpm2tgz to make it a Slackware package, and then installpkg it. It seems to be working fine now. And I think it looks a little bit nicer than docker. Not that there is anything wrong with docker. It's more than sufficient for the job I think, I just like wmsystray better.

I know, a boring entry again. Maybe I'll get around to posting something interesting sometime soon.