Free docking software for linux

Docker is a docking application (WindowMaker dock app) which acts as a system tray for KDE and GNOME2. Docker can be used to replace the panel in either environment, allowing you to have a system tray w ithout running the KDE/GNOME panel or environment.

I wrote and designed Docker to work with Openbox 2, but it should work fine in any window manager that supports WindowMaker dock apps.

If you running WindowMaker or otherwise and experiencing problems, you should try using the -wmaker option to make docker keep a fixed size.

Docker requires a KDE3 compliant window manager to handle KDE3 system tray icons, and since it is a docking application, the window manager needs to also support WindowMaker Dock Apps. The only window manager that meets these requirements to my knowledge is:

- Openbox 2 (http://icculus.org/openbox)

If you know of any other window managers that support the KDE3 hints for the system tray and docking apps (i.e. that docker works in), please let me know so I can add them to this list, and test docker out in them!

Why dont my GNOME2 system tray icons show up?

I dont know! Email me and let me know what application isnt working. (Dont you dare email me about a GNOME1 application!

KDocker will help you dock any application into the system tray. This means you can dock openoffice, xmms, firefox, thunderbird, anything! Just point and click.
Works for all NET WM compliant window managers - that includes KDE, GNOME, Xfce and many more.
Main features:
- Supports Session Management (XSMP) and auto launch applications that do not support session management (e.g firefox)
- Drag n Drop (XDND) support. You can drop items into the system tray icons
- Optionally docks when application is minmized or obscured by other windows
- Cool window title ballooning (song titles will be ballooned when your media player switches to a new song)
- Optionally removes the window from the task bar
- Its internationalized and currently supports Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, French, German, Indonesian, Polish, Russian and Spanish locales
- Dock 1, 2, 10 windows but there is only one instance of KDocker running all the time
- Tracks system tray appearance/disappearance and acts intelligently
Enhancements:
- Fix bug when reading back balloon timeout on session restoration
- AutoLaunch enhancement (Request user to provide program name when autodetection failed)
- Indonesian translations from Eko Prasetiyo
- Italian translations from Alessio Cassibba
- Updated Brazilian Portuguese translations

KNetDockApp is a small application that docks in the systray and monitors the activity of the selected network interface.
KNetDockApp also monitors the link status and can detect if a networking cable is attached to the nic or not.
Supports session management, and runs on next logins.
Enhancements:
- run dhcpcd, bring up/down the selected interface
- connect to specific wifi network, details dialog
- allows choosing led color
- now found in internet kmenu category
- fix header issue

cnslock is a dock application (dockapp) which provides a visual indication of the states of the three "lock" buttons (caps, num, and scroll).

cnslock was written so that I could see the state of those keys as I have a wireless keyboard with no leds on it.

Usage:

Simply launch:

cnslock

If you have problems running it under a different window manager, such as fvwm or enlightenment, there is a command line argument that may help:

cnslock -w

KLinPopup is a program like Linpopup, Linpopup2 (Gtk2+) or KPopup (heavily based on this) to receive and send Windows popup messages (Winpopup or "net send") with Linux.
Also Kopete theoretically can handle winpopup messages (not this time).
Main features:
- receive and send winpopup messages via samba
- can start only docked
- adjustable new message signaling (sound, tray, activate window)
- adjustable timer for incoming messages
- adjustable sender string for incoming messages
- you can choose the sender name for new messages
- sending one message to multiple hosts
Enhancements:
- changed inotify mask
- updated translations

WMLog is a WindowMaker dockapp that scrolls the latest message from /var/log/message, /var/log/warn and ~/.X.err.
A click on the "log" button opens an xterm with tail -f -n4 /var/log/message /var/log/warn ~/.X.err
The leds on top turn red when theres a message about:
- failed su command (bad password)
- failed login command (bad password)
- tftp attack (access denied)
- WMaker error
- Sendmail error
- Kernel message
- Root logged in
- Other messages
Clicking on a led will show it s function and the number of times the led turned red (a counter). A click an the scroll-window will start/stop the srolling.
Installation:
(as root)
cd wmlog-0.2/wmlog
./configure
make
make install

wmisdn is a dock applet that monitors the i4l ISDN subsystem and lets the user start/stop/disable a ppp connection on a specified device.

wmisdn can run as a docked applet in KDE2 (via kappdock), WindowMaker or Afterstep, as well as a standalone windowed application in any other window manager. On its main window wmisdn shows the status of the monitored ippp device.

An additional panel can be toggled to show extended information about the connection. wmisdn can control the ippp connection via three buttons that appear on the upper side of the main window when toggled using the vertical arrow switch (take a look at the second screenshot).

The green one opens the connection, the yellow one closes it and the red one disables it.

Command line options:

Use the -w option if you want to dock wmisdn into the Windowmaker dock. The -s option is useful for Afterstep and other dock-enabled window managers.

The -dialmode option tells wmisdn which dialmode to use for the device when the user presses the yellow button requesting that the connection (if any) is stopped and the dialing is enabled. You can use auto for enabling the autodialing feature of i4l or manual. If the option is not present wmisdn tries to get the current setting from the device. If the devices dialmode setting is set to off, indicating that the device has been disabled, the defualt setting auto is assumed.

The -device option tells which ippp devices should be monitored. The devices are expected as a comma separated list of device names with NO BLANKS in it, i.e. "-device ippp0,ippp1,ippp5". The order of the device names is not important. On most systems the only configured device is ippp0 and this is the default setting if none specified. If you want to monitor a slave device (for mppp), you should also specify
it using this option.

The -lamps option causes the connection control buttons to be displayed directly upon startup, as if some magic hand has pressed the vertical-arrow-button that toggles them. It is intended for users who need them permanently. If you have set the hangup timeouts and the default routes properly, so that dialing and hanging up is performed automatically, you wont need the control buttons very often and since I find that wmisdn looks better without them, they dont appear on the default display mode.

The -font option can be used to specify a different font for the info window and the device display (the default font is the LED-builtin). The font name must follow the X11 font naming conventions and must be placed in quotation marks (take a look at xfontsel if you dont know the font names on your system).

The -usescripts and -path options deal with the scripting feature of wmisdn. For more information, read the SCRIPTS file.