gtk-sni-tray

A standalone StatusNotifierItem/AppIndicator tray

https://github.com/IvanMalison/gtk-sni-tray#readme

LTS Haskell 23.28:0.1.8.1
Stackage Nightly 2026-02-18:0.1.15.0
Latest on Hackage:0.1.15.0

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Ivan Malison
Maintained by [email protected]
This version can be pinned in stack with:gtk-sni-tray-0.1.15.0@sha256:0afc6385656385689c084b303d618ddb23a10fa92f901fcb0e1b9261257b4cff,2369

Module documentation for 0.1.15.0

Used by 2 packages in nightly-2026-02-18(full list with versions):
gtk-sni-tray, taffybar

gtk-sni-tray

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gtk-sni-tray provides a StatusNotifierHost widget written using the gtk+3 bindings for haskell provided by gi-gtk. It also provides a simple standalone executable, gtk-sni-tray-standalone, that is configured with command line arguments. This executable will run the aforementioned widget by itself in a strut window on X11, or (when available) a layer-shell surface on Wayland.

taffybar

It is generally recommeneded that you use this widget through taffybar with this module, which will allow you to combine it with other useful widgets, and will allow more flexibility in configuration.

StatusNotifierWatcher

By default, it is assumed that you are running an isolated StatusNotifierWatcher daemon. status-notifier-item provides a StatusNotifierWatcher executable that you can use for this purpose. If you get an error like

MethodError {methodErrorName = ErrorName "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown", methodErrorSerial = Serial 7, methodErrorSender = Just (BusName "org.freedesktop.DBus"), methodErrorDestination = Just (BusName ":1.549"), methodErrorBody = [Variant "The name org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher was not provided by any .service files"]}

when you start gtk-sni-tray-standalone it is probably because you have not started a StatusNotifierWatcher on your system. You can solve this problem by passing the --watcher flag to gtk-sni-tray-standalone, but this is not recommeneded, because many SNI processes do not monitor for new watcher processes, and so may not immediately register when this new watcher is started.

Installation

nix, stack and cabal can all be used to install gtk-sni-tray.

When building with cabal, you will need the following system dependencies available via pkg-config:

  • gtk+-3.0
  • gtk-layer-shell-0 (for the standalone Wayland layer-shell window)

For Nix users, this repository provides a flake dev shell. If you use direnv, direnv allow then direnv reload should set up the environment.

If you see a Cabal error about missing pkg-config packages, scripts/cabal-run does a quick preflight check and prints a more direct message.

Development

Formatting is done with ormolu (available in the flake dev shell):

scripts/fmt
scripts/fmt-check

Changes

Changelog for gtk-sni-tray

0.1.15.0

  • Fix: respect the user’s GTK icon theme when an SNI item provides IconThemePath (and handle IconThemePath values that point inside a theme directory).
  • Add icon preference support (choose themed icons vs pixmaps when both are provided) and expose it in the standalone executable with --icon-preference.
  • Add optional icon recoloring in the standalone executable with --icon-recolor.
  • Nix: improve flake dev shell environment so cabal new-run can find icon themes and gdk-pixbuf loaders.
  • Development: add scripts/fmt and scripts/fmt-check for ormolu formatting.

0.1.14.2

  • Relax executable optparse-applicative upper bound to < 0.20 for GHC 9.12 snapshots.
  • Bump dbus-menu lower bound to 0.1.3.2.

0.1.14.1

  • Update the Nix flake lock for status-notifier-item to pick up a host-side deduplication fix for items that re-register under different bus names after watcher restart.

0.1.14.0

  • Add tray priority matching with a new TrayPriorityConfig.
  • Add buildTrayWithPriority while keeping buildTray behavior unchanged.
  • Add matcher helpers and combinators so matching can target service name/path, menu path, item id/category/status, icon name/title, tooltip text, and itemIsMenu.

0.1.13.2

  • Bump dbus-menu lower bound to 0.1.3.1.

0.1.13.1

  • Bump dbus-menu lower bound to 0.1.3 for menu-level click dispatch.

0.1.13.0

  • Use extracted dbus-menu library instead of inline DBusMenu implementation.
  • Reduce default overlay icon scale from 60% to 40%.
  • Fix: clamp scaled pixbuf dimensions to >= 1 to prevent GDK assertion failure.
  • Bump dbus-menu lower bound to 0.1.1.

0.1.12.0

  • Add trayCenterIcons field to TrayParams and --center-icons CLI flag to center tray icons within the bar.
  • Anchor LibDBusMenu popup to the icon image widget instead of the EventBox for more accurate popup positioning.

0.1.11.3

  • Fix menu popup positioning: use menuPopupAtPointer with the actual button press event (via getCurrentEvent) so the menu appears at the click location instead of at an incorrect widget-relative position.

0.1.11.2

  • Add upper bounds to all dependencies per PVP.
  • Remove trailing zeros from dependency upper bounds.

0.1.11.1

  • Fix menu popups on Wayland/layer-shell: use menuPopupAtWidget instead of menuPopupAtPointer which fails with “no trigger event” when the GdkEvent’s window is not a valid GDK surface.
  • Fix menu item clicks: defer menu widget destruction via idleAdd with PRIORITY_LOW so GTK’s activate signal fires before the widget is destroyed.
  • Fix DBus Event variant wrapping: correctly double-wrap the data parameter to produce wire type v instead of i.
  • Send Event DBus calls on a forked thread to avoid blocking the GTK main loop.
  • Default menu backend to HaskellDBusMenu (pure Haskell implementation).
  • Deferred popup for LibDBusMenu backend to avoid assertion failures from showing the menu before the C library finishes loading the layout.

0.1.11.0

  • Restore libdbusmenu (gi-dbusmenugtk3) as the default menu backend.
  • Add runtime-configurable menu backend selection: LibDBusMenu (default) or HaskellDBusMenu via trayMenuBackend in TrayParams and --menu-backend CLI flag.

0.1.10.2

  • Fix menu popups not appearing: restore widgetShowAll so menu items are visible, and use menuPopupAtPointer for reliable positioning on both X11 and Wayland.
  • Fix all -Wall warnings across library and executable.

0.1.10.1

  • Fix menu popup positioning on Wayland: use menuAttachToWidget instead of premature widgetShowAll so that menuPopupAtWidget can properly anchor the popup surface to the tray icon.

0.1.10.0

  • Replace libdbusmenu usage (gi-dbusmenugtk3) with a pure Haskell implementation of the com.canonical.dbusmenu protocol.
  • Add CSS style classes/names to tray menu widgets to make them themeable.

0.1.9.1

  • Fix type error with DM.Menu and Gtk.menuPopupAtWidget by adding explicit cast to Gtk.Menu. This fixes build failures with newer GI bindings where the type hierarchy is not automatically recognized.

0.1.9.0

  • Use the gi-gtk3 and gi-gdk3 build dependencies, which have been renamed from gi-gtk and gi-gdk.