Re: tray icon drop down menus (solved)

[zentara <zzmiloschxx gmail com>]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:39:23 -0500
"Zane C.B." <v velox vvelox net> wrote:

> > <snip>
>
> Ok, basically this is impossible to do using any of the regular
> menuing stuff.
>
> I started poking at a program that does this, claws-mail, and found
> the answers to this in file 'trayicon.c' for it's tray icon plugin.
> You can find it all in the functions 'create_trayicon' and 'click_cb'.
>
> Basically what needs to happen you need to create a event box with
> the image in it. Then on a mouse click, you then activate the menu.

In Mario Kemper's train of thought, see
my Gtk2 StatusIcon Demo at:

http://perlmonks.org?node_id=725925

It may solve all of your problems.

peace and tranquility,
zentara