Change tray icon visibility through dbus

Daniel Castro danicast at cisco.com
Tue Jan 8 12:44:36 EST 2013


Second try on this... Anyone?

Thanks!

- Daniel.

On 01/04/2013 12:21 PM, Daniel Castro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Linux Mint 14 32-bit Cinnamon and I hit this issue 
> <https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/246> with Pidgin's tray 
> icon.
>
> I'm trying to find a workaround while this gets fixed in Cinnamon. I 
> get my icon back by going to Tools -> Preferences and disabling and 
> enabling the system tray icon. So I'd like to see if I can automate this.
>
> Is there a way to change the tray icon's visibility using dbus?
>
> So, can I use purple-remote to change that preference, from:
> <pref name='docklet'>
>             <pref name='blink' type='bool' value='1'/>
>             <pref name='show' type='string' value='always'/>
>             <pref name='gtk'>
>                 <pref name='embedded' type='bool' value='1'/>
>             </pref>
> To:
> <pref name='docklet'>
>             <pref name='blink' type='bool' value='1'/>
>             <pref name='show' type='string' value='always'/>
>             <pref name='gtk'>
>                 <pref name='embedded' type='bool' value='*0*'/>
>             </pref>
>
> I'd appreciate if someone could tell me how to do this.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Daniel Castro
> Software QA Engineer
> CMBU Galway QA (CCATG)
> danicast at cisco.com
>
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