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snixembed(1)

snixembed1

Proxy the statusnotifieritem protocol to the xembed system tray

Usage

snixembed [--fork]

Overview

The snixembed daemon proxies StatusNotifierItems as XEmbedded System Tray icons.

Options

--fork

Set up in the foreground, then fork to background process.

This can be used to avoid race conditions with applications that expect a StatusNotifierWatcher to be ready on startup. Start these applications only after snixembed --fork has completed.

Bugs

Not all of the StatusNotifierItem specification is supported. Current support includes: mouse events, context menus, tooltips. There is also limited AppIndicator support.

Authors

Maintained by Steef Hegeman, who is assisted by other open source contributors.

More information and up-to-date sources can be found at https://git.sr.ht/~steef/snixembed.

From snixembed 0.3.3-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.