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TDEDocker
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TDEDocker will help you dock any application in the system tray. This means you
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can dock openoffice, xmms, firefox, thunderbolt, eclipse, anything! Just point
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and click. Works for both KDE and GNOME (In fact it should work for most modern
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window managers that support NET WM Specification. I believe it works for XFCE,
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for instance)
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All you need to do is start TDEDocker and select an application using the mouse
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and lo! the application gets docked into the system tray. The application can
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also be made to dissappear from the task bar.
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System Tray Support
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TDEDocker supports the KDE System Tray Protocol and the System Tray Protocol from
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freedesktop.org
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Tips to use TDEDocker
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1. On KDE, right click on K menu and use the menu editor to create a link of
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TDEDocker and create a shortcut (Windows key + Z). You could use the tdedocker.xpm
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in the src folder as the icon (its an anchor).
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Rationale: ^Z on the shell puts processes in the background. On the same lines,
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Windows+Z will help you put windows app to the background ;) (thanks to Thomas
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McGuire for this suggestion)
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2. With TDEDocker 0.9, there is an option to dock the current active window (-f).
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As soon as you press WinKey+Z, the window which has the focus will be
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automatically docked. Thanks to Daniel for this neat feature request.
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Session Management
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IMPORTANT: Make sure TDEDocker is in your $PATH for Session Management to work. I
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created a link in /usr/bin to point to tdedocker. TDEDocker will automatically dock
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all the programs that you had docked in your previous session when you log on
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the next time (provided they were all docked when you logged out).
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When using TDEDocker in startup scripts, be sure to supply the "-d" switch.
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This will disable session management for that tdedocker instance. This will
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prevent tdedocker from docking that application twice (during startup and session
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restoration). For the same reason, make sure you use the "-d" switch, when you
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undock an application that is in a startup script and then dock it again.
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Few programs do not support session management. For example, thunderbird may not
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launch itself automatically after you logout and logon. For such applications
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use the "-l" switch (also accessible through the menu as "Launch on startup").
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TDEDocker will launch thunderbird on session restoration.
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Note that, if you have 4 applications docked using TDEDocker and you use
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Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to logout, nothing will be restored when log back in. (The
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shortcut kills the X server and the session is not saved). Hence, it is a good
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idea to put the applications that you intend to dock in your starup folder and
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use the "-d" switch.
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Its a bit confusing, but I cannot find any easy way to satisfy all
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combinations. They say you design for the common case, but for TDEDocker I do not
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know (yet) which will be the common case. I fancy launching stuff from console
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but I am not so sure about the rest.
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QTrayLabel
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QTrayLabel is meant to be a reusable class which will help you dock any window.
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Have a look.
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i18n/Translations
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If you see the following,
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"Sorry, your locale is not supported. If you are interested in providing
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translations for your locale, contact gramakri@uiuc.edu"
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it means either
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a) TDEDocker could not find the translation files
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b) Translation files for your locale dont exist
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For a), TDEDocker looks for the translation files in the following paths,
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- install.path/i18n
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- app.path/i18n
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- curdir/i18n
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For b), use linguist to create the translations and provide them to me. Its
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really easy. Follow following steps,
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1. edit tdedocker.pro. Look for TRANSLATIONS. Add your locale in the end. Say,
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i18n/tdedocker_zz.ts
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2. from the tdedocker source base, execute "lupdate tdedocker.pro"
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3. "cd i18n". you should see tdedocker_zz.ts.
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4. provide the translations - "linguist tdedocker_zz.ts"
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5. from the tdedocker source base, execute "lrelease tdedocker.pro"
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6. thats it! Now test it. Make sure $LANG=zz (or appropriate). Run tdedocker and
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make sure all your translations are out there.
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7. Ship the .ts file to gramakri@uiuc.edu. (I can generate the .qm file from
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the .ts file)
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Reporting Bugs
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Bugs and wishes to gramakri at uiuc dot edu. Follow the guidelines below , if
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possible and send it to me at gramakri at uiuc dot edu.
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* Add the following line in tdedocker.pro (in fact just uncomment it)
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DEFINES += ENABLE_TRACING
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* Now do a "make clean" and "then make".
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* Launch TDEDocker. Recreate the problem.
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- Right Click on the tray icon.
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- Choose "About TDEDocker"
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- You should see a button called "Show Trace". Please note that this button
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will appear only when compiled with tracing
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- Try debugging yourself or send it to me
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- If you send SIGUSR1 to the TDEDocker process, it will dump all the trace to
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~/tdedocker.trace
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Send me a postcard!
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If you love TDEDocker and would like to thank me, send me a postcard or some
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stamps to
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Girish Ramakrishnan
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G7, Block No.12, R.K.Apartments,
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Hoysala Nagar,
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Bangalore,
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Karnataka, India
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http:://tdedocker.sourceforge.net for updates
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