Project Details

Clipbar is a minimalist X11 tool written in C++.

It provides something similar to the Windows systray. Applications are swallowed into the clipbar, and presented as small fixed-sized windows. KDE system tray icons are detected and kept at their smaller size (22x22), while other windows are kept at 64x64.

It was designed for use with the ION window manager, but will work with any X11 environment.

When clipbar is started, it shows a window with a rectangle down the left hand side. Left-clicking on this brings up a crosshair cursor; if you then click in a window, it will be swallowed into the clipbar. Right-clicking on the rectangle flips the clipbar between horizontal and vertical mode.

Each swallowed window has a small rectangle shown in the top-left corner; clicking this will regurgitate the window, turning it back into a normal window.

The command line arguments to clipbar are:

    USAGE: ./clipbar [-bg <colour>] [-fg <colour>]
        [-tfg <colour>] [-tbg <colour>]
        [-horiz] [-vert] [-display <disp>]

The -bg and -fg options set the colour used for the window background and the swallow button; -tfg sets the colour of the middle of the regurgitate buttons, and -tbg sets the colour of the border of the regurgitate buttons.

-horiz and -vert alter the starting display mode - horizontal or vertical.

-display sets the X11 display to connect to, overriding the DISPLAY environment variable.

Compilation is simple - just type make.