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Lots of times over the years I have used a application all the time I wish could be set to the system tray. I love when programs give you this option for things you always want quick access too, but dont want it cluttering up your task bar.

Alltray is a handy little application that will allow you to take any application and put it in the system tray area of your gnome panel. By default it is added to the menu under Accessories -> Alltray.

Starting the program will just pop up a little dialog area like below:

Clicking on any open application will move it to the system tray. You can see what I mean here with firefox.

I tend to use this for pan most of the time, but did not want to have to do this every time I started pan.

A min or two of poking in the command line switches of the alltray application let me create a startup session in gnome to start pan in the tray on boot up.

alltray –skip-taskbar pan

Replace the command pan with an application you chose and put it in your gnome startup session.

Well I ended up leaving where I was working to go work for a sister company to them. I am actually pretty happy I made the move and am now two weeks into the new job. Its close to what I was orig doing at the old job before I got shifted into do some other stuff because no one else was doing it. I really need to get back into the whole mind set of it though since I have been off of it for the last few months and doing other things.

The summer is in full swing, pool is open yard is in good shape and I have not felt over worked with having to keep it all in check. Several people expressed some concerns about me not being able to keep up with managing a house on my own, but it is actually not all that much work to look after. I actually enjoy it to a certain extent as it gives me something else to focus on for a hour or two at a time. Lots of stuff around that I would like to do, but plan to wait for now and maybe finish the basement next year sometime.

Had made plans to hang out today with one of the newer guys at my old work, but he didn’t end up calling at all.. Oh well what can you do..

Don’t really have many plan for tonight other than maybe a movie and playing some more rockband. Whiplash Assault is rated 1400 in the world on the PS3 charts for highest fans. We keep moving up but the higher we get the less we can move up in a night. Only a few songs now that we can not do on expert level in the default game. I have actually downloaded a pretty health amount of songs as it keeps the replay value high.

Just testing out a remote posting system from wordpress.

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