minimize a program into an icon on the taskbar.

[Larry Bates]

Frank Niessink wrote:
> Rajesh Sathyamoorthy:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would know how to minimize a program (wxpython app) into an icon on
>> the taskbar on windows (the one at the side near the clock, i can't
>> remember what is it called.)
>>
>> Is it easy to be done? Is there a way to do the same thing on Linux?
> 
> Did you look into wx.TaskBarIcon?
> 
> Cheers, Frank
> 
> 
Its called the system tray and here is a link to some sample code
for Windows I found via Google:

http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/SysTrayIcon.py.html


Here is a link that says it works for KDE:

http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=8294

This may help with gnome:

http://www.realistanew.com/2005/04/19/bittorrent-tray-icon/

-Larry Bates