Vertical line in System Tray

[Ryan Kavanagh]

Binary package hint: kicker-applets

In the system tray in kde, when using it's visible/hidden icon feature, to the right of the green arrow, a vertical line shows up. It shows up on all desktops, with every color background, with and without transparence (kicker). Please see the screenshot(s) attached.

[Ryan Kavanagh (ryanakca)]

A screenshot of it on a transparent kicker with a black background (really visible)... if you can't find it (unlikely), look between the green arrow and the sound mixer icon

[Ryan Kavanagh (ryanakca)]

A screenshot of it on a solid kicker, zoomed in...

[Ryan Kavanagh (ryanakca)]

A screenshot of it on a solid kicker, zoomed in...

[Andreas Simon (andreas-w-simon)]

Actually, this line is intentionally to differentiate (at least that's the intention) the green arrow from other tray icons. I agree that depending on your colour and kicker settings it may not look very good.

[Henry Cooper Avel (henrique-ulbrich)]

Well, first, Aaron Seigo (the developer of this applet) have already solved this bug, is just a matter of applying his patch.

http://aseigo.bddf.ca/

But I have another problem. My systray-hidding applet just won't show up. My notification area is crowded with 10 icons and I want to hide some of them, but can't find the apropriate applet to put the goddam button there. Any clues? I think this is a bug, if confirmed will open a bug.

[Henry Cooper Avel (henrique-ulbrich)]

Oops, the patch is here:

http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2004/11/systray-icon-hiding-news-at-11.html

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

Ryan, is this still an issue with the latest updates?

[Ryan Kavanagh (ryanakca)]

Yes, on today's gutsy, here's the screenshot.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

This line is gone in KDE4.