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long form #!/bin/bash # To show a menu with an icon in the system tray. Tested OK on MX-15 and MX-16 (XFCE and KDE desktop). # Don't forget to put a proper nice icon file in place ! Autostart works nicely using system settings. use ksysguard to end "yad". PIPE="$HOME/.pipe.tmp" r...

some stuff in yad does not work, however. like I dont think you can have a custom icon if you use CLI line without PIPE like in the second example.

--paned seems broken too, asf. that's why yad is in the "unstable" repo.

since yad is from sid/unstable - not for no reason, I might add - gtkdialog seems to be a better choice to write bash maintenance scripts in. Above see a screenie of MXT which is working well in MX-16 BETA. very few lines of bash/gtk script.

to have stuff in the system tray - both in KDE as well as XFCE - can be done real quick: just run this one-liner: :turtle: :turtle: yad --notification --menu="xfce4-appfinder so-called!xfce4-appfinder|Firefox webbrowser!firefox" & :snail: :snail: for a menu to start Firefox or Appfinde...