system tray modules problems Thread last updated on 2005-12-30 22:57:24

Posted by member 294531 on 2005-12-28 11:23:10

hi everybody, im new to litestep and have found it to be a wonderful substitution to the windows shell. but as ive been configuring my own themes, i can never get any of the tray modules such as vtray or xtray to work properly. so i decided to download some themes and see if the trays worked then but they still dont. the system tray would only show one icon even though i know atleast 4 icons should appear. i cant seem to figure out the problem but it would be great if somebody could help.

Posted by member 12025 on 2005-12-28 11:26:38 link

1. You're using Omar's Installer 3.02, right?
2. You're using 0.24.7 final binaries, right?
3. You have restarted since installing LS, right?

If not, do all of those. And, to answer the obvious next n00b question:
http://www.litestep.net/index.php?section=4&action=view&catId=4&id=5088

Posted by member 1 on 2005-12-28 11:31:22 link

Im gonna stick with the old standby. Have you ever installed a Stardock application other than WindowBlinds? Something that may have included one of their applications called DesktopX?

Posted by member 294531 on 2005-12-28 12:40:45 link

only stardock program i use is windowblinds

and to cerbie yes to each question

Posted by member 1949 on 2005-12-28 12:44:48 link

mandeep...

A logoff will not place the icons in your tray.
A full restart is required.
Also if you kill Litestep and restart your icons go bye bye.
So a system restart will be required again to get your icons back in the systray.

Posted by member 294531 on 2005-12-28 13:21:14 link

i restarted after installing ls and after applying the theme and still no results.

Posted by member 5575 on 2005-12-29 14:41:14 link

Look in the task manager for an application with the word "Tray" in it (I don't remember the exact name of it.) This is a Stardock "helper" application that works with explorer, but prevents LS from seeing your tray icons. You need to remove that application from your startup entries.

Posted by member 562 on 2005-12-30 11:48:46 link

trayserver.exe

Posted by member 5575 on 2005-12-30 22:57:24 link

What he said.