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Desktop integration on X11 and Wayland
Desktop integration on X11 and Wayland

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  • Widget behavior
    • Scrollbars
      • Scrollbar position
      • Overlay scrollbars
      • Scrollbar steppers
      • Zoom scrolling
      • Clicking in the scrollbar track
  • Interfaces
    • XDG Desktop Portal settings interface
    • Gtk.Settings
  • Panels and application icons
    • System tray menus
      • AppIndicator
      • KStatusNotifierItem
        • KStatusNotifierItem interface description
          • org.freedesktop.Notifications
          • org.kde.StatusNotifierItem
          • org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher
          • Icons
          • Markup
      • Draft replacement Freedesktop specification
    • System tray applets
      • XEmbed-based protocol
      • Draft Wayland protocol ext-tray-v1
      • XAppStatusIcon
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System tray appletsΒΆ

These are similar to system tray menus, but allow the application to put whatever content they want inside the popup that appears when the system tray icon is clicked.

We do not include the desktop environment-specific or panel-specific panel applet APIs in this documentation.

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  • XEmbed-based protocol
  • Draft Wayland protocol ext-tray-v1
  • XAppStatusIcon
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