Stalonetray is a STAnd-aLONE system TRAY (notification area) for Unix desktops using the X11 windowing system. It has minimal default build and run-time dependencies: the Xlib and libXinerama, though you could do away with the latter by disabling a feature for even more minimalism. Stalonetray runs under virtually any window manager.

To start using stalonetray, just copy stalonetrayrc.sample to ~/.stalonetrayrc or to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/stalonetrayrc. It is well-commented and should suffice for a quick start.

Note that some features are disabled by default and may not work out of the box, depending on how stalonetray was built by the package maintainer. See the "Building from source" section below if you want to compile it yourself with the features you need.

This project was originally developed by Roman Dubtsov (kolbusa) and recently changed hands. Roman is still involved with, but no longer actively maintains the project.

To him goes all the credit for creating and maintaining this project for many years. Thank you, Roman!

Package managers are the most convenient way to install stalonetray. It is packaged for several Linux distributions and BSD variants. On Debian and Ubuntu, run:

sudo apt install stalonetray

On Fedora run:

sudo dnf install stalonetray

Stalonetray uses Meson. Refer to the meson.options file for available build options and their default values.

To build stalonetray using Meson, ensure necessary dependencies are installed --- by default only Xlib and libXinerama development packages are required --- and run the standard Meson build commands:

meson setup builddir
meson compile -C builddir stalonetray

This should build the stalonetray binary in the builddir directory.

To build stalonetray's documentation, you'll need xsltproc and DocBook stylesheets installed first. Then build the manpage target:

meson compile -C builddir manpage

This creates the stalonetray.1 file in the builddir directory.

Installation from source can be done with:

meson install -C builddir