---
name: "icewmtray"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "icewm-common"
version: "1.4.3.0~pre-20181030-2"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/icewmtray"
---

# icewmtray(1)

## NAME

```
 icewmtray - a system tray for the IceWM panel
```

## SYNOPSIS

- **icewmtray** \[*OPTIONS*\]

  - **icewmtray** {**-h**\|**--help**} \[*OPTIONS*\]

  - **icewmtray** {**-V**\|**--version**}

  - **icewmtray** {**-C**\|**--copying**}

  ## DESCRIPTION

**icewmtray** provides a system tray for the IceWM panel.  It catches the system tray objects which are installed by various applications.

## OPTIONS

**icewmtray** recognizes the following options:

### COMMAND OPTIONS

Command options are mutually exclusive.  Only one command option can be specified per invocation.  If no command option is specified, argument parsing and processing is performed.

- **-h**, **--help**

  Print a brief usage statement to *stdout* and exit.

- **-V**, **--version**

  Print the program version to *stdout* and exit.

- **-C**, **--copying**

  Print copying permissions to *stdout* for the program and exit.

### GENERAL OPTIONS

**icewmtray** recognizes the following options:

- **-n**, **--notify**

  Specifies that **icewmtray** is to notify its parent process by sending the **SIGUSR1** signal.  This option is used by [*icewm-session*(1)](/icewm-session/1.md) when starting up components so that it can wait for component startup to complete.

- **-c**, **--config** *FILENAME*

  Specifies the configuration file to use.

- **-t**, **--theme** *THEME*

  Specifies an override theme to use.

- **--debug**

  Specifies that debugging is to be turned on.  **icewmtray** must have been compiled with debugging for this option to have an effect.

## USAGE

***icewmtray*****(1)** is typically launched and terminated by [*icewm-session*(1)](/icewm-session/1.md) with the appropriate options: it is usually unnecessary to launch it directly.

## CONFORMING TO

**icewmtray** is compliant to the XDG system tray specification.

## BUGS

**icewmtray** had no known bugs at the time of release.  Please report bugs for current versions to the source code repository at \<https://github.com/bbidulock/icewm/issues\>.

## AUTHOR

Brian Bidulock \<mailto:bidulock@openss7.org\>.

See **--copying** for full copyright notice and copying permissions.

## LICENSE

**IceWM** is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License. See the *COPYING* file in the distribution or use the **--copying** flag to display copying permissions.