Hello, I browsed suckless mailing lists and I found that system tray is discouraged in dwm and it's suggested to use tags instead.
I was always using workspace separation (with other window manager) and I have instant messengers on dedicated workspace. But system tray is still very useful, without switching workspace I can see that I have new message on IM or someone has replied me in IRC. I tried two independent tray applications (trayer and stalonetray), but they look alien to dwm. They have fixed size floating windows, and they overlap tiled windows. They have the same borders as other application, and does not stand out from other applications like dmenu. And trayer has a bad habit to grab focus after switching active tag, and it's getting underfoot when switching focused windows with Mod-j and Mod-k. System tray patch from patches section is working fine for me. It's less obtrusive. I'm not in any way asking about taking patch to upstream. I just want to know what what is the alternative way to monitor activity of applications which I usually monitor with the tray icons. Probably I not understood well trayer and stalonetray options and they can smoothly integrate into dwm. I appreciate much any advice. -- Amor vincit omnia.
