gtk_status_icon_new ()

GtkStatusIcon *
gtk_status_icon_new (void);

Creates an empty status icon object.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_new_from_pixbuf ()

GtkStatusIcon *
gtk_status_icon_new_from_pixbuf (GdkPixbuf *pixbuf);

Creates a status icon displaying pixbuf .

The image will be scaled down to fit in the available space in the notification area, if necessary.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_new_from_file ()

GtkStatusIcon *
gtk_status_icon_new_from_file (const gchar *filename);

Creates a status icon displaying the file filename .

The image will be scaled down to fit in the available space in the notification area, if necessary.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_new_from_stock ()

GtkStatusIcon *
gtk_status_icon_new_from_stock (const gchar *stock_id);

Creates a status icon displaying a stock icon. Sample stock icon names are GTK_STOCK_OPEN, GTK_STOCK_QUIT. You can register your own stock icon names, see gtk_icon_factory_add_default() and gtk_icon_factory_add().

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_new_from_icon_name ()

GtkStatusIcon *
gtk_status_icon_new_from_icon_name (const gchar *icon_name);

Creates a status icon displaying an icon from the current icon theme. If the current icon theme is changed, the icon will be updated appropriately.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_new_from_gicon ()

GtkStatusIcon *
gtk_status_icon_new_from_gicon (GIcon *icon);

Creates a status icon displaying a GIcon. If the icon is a themed icon, it will be updated when the theme changes.

Since 2.14

gtk_status_icon_set_from_pixbuf ()

void
gtk_status_icon_set_from_pixbuf (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
                                 GdkPixbuf *pixbuf);

Makes status_icon display pixbuf . See gtk_status_icon_new_from_pixbuf() for details.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_set_from_file ()

void
gtk_status_icon_set_from_file (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
                               const gchar *filename);

Makes status_icon display the file filename . See gtk_status_icon_new_from_file() for details.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_set_from_stock ()

void
gtk_status_icon_set_from_stock (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
                                const gchar *stock_id);

Makes status_icon display the stock icon with the id stock_id . See gtk_status_icon_new_from_stock() for details.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_set_from_icon_name ()

void
gtk_status_icon_set_from_icon_name (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
                                    const gchar *icon_name);

Makes status_icon display the icon named icon_name from the current icon theme. See gtk_status_icon_new_from_icon_name() for details.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_set_from_gicon ()

void
gtk_status_icon_set_from_gicon (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
                                GIcon *icon);

Makes status_icon display the GIcon. See gtk_status_icon_new_from_gicon() for details.

Since 2.14

gtk_status_icon_get_storage_type ()

GtkImageType
gtk_status_icon_get_storage_type (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon);

Gets the type of representation being used by the GtkStatusIcon to store image data. If the GtkStatusIcon has no image data, the return value will be GTK_IMAGE_EMPTY.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_get_pixbuf ()

GdkPixbuf *
gtk_status_icon_get_pixbuf (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon);

Gets the GdkPixbuf being displayed by the GtkStatusIcon. The storage type of the status icon must be GTK_IMAGE_EMPTY or GTK_IMAGE_PIXBUF (see gtk_status_icon_get_storage_type()). The caller of this function does not own a reference to the returned pixbuf.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_get_stock ()

const gchar *
gtk_status_icon_get_stock (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon);

Gets the id of the stock icon being displayed by the GtkStatusIcon. The storage type of the status icon must be GTK_IMAGE_EMPTY or GTK_IMAGE_STOCK (see gtk_status_icon_get_storage_type()). The returned string is owned by the GtkStatusIcon and should not be freed or modified.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_get_icon_name ()

const gchar *
gtk_status_icon_get_icon_name (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon);

Gets the name of the icon being displayed by the GtkStatusIcon. The storage type of the status icon must be GTK_IMAGE_EMPTY or GTK_IMAGE_ICON_NAME (see gtk_status_icon_get_storage_type()). The returned string is owned by the GtkStatusIcon and should not be freed or modified.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_get_gicon ()

GIcon *
gtk_status_icon_get_gicon (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon);

Retrieves the GIcon being displayed by the GtkStatusIcon. The storage type of the status icon must be GTK_IMAGE_EMPTY or GTK_IMAGE_GICON (see gtk_status_icon_get_storage_type()). The caller of this function does not own a reference to the returned GIcon.

If this function fails, icon is left unchanged;

Since 2.14

gtk_status_icon_get_size ()

gint
gtk_status_icon_get_size (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon);

Gets the size in pixels that is available for the image. Stock icons and named icons adapt their size automatically if the size of the notification area changes. For other storage types, the size-changed signal can be used to react to size changes.

Note that the returned size is only meaningful while the status icon is embedded (see gtk_status_icon_is_embedded()).

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_set_screen ()

void
gtk_status_icon_set_screen (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
                            GdkScreen *screen);

Sets the GdkScreen where status_icon is displayed; if the icon is already mapped, it will be unmapped, and then remapped on the new screen.

Since 2.12

gtk_status_icon_get_screen ()

GdkScreen *
gtk_status_icon_get_screen (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon);

Returns the GdkScreen associated with status_icon .

Since 2.12

gtk_status_icon_set_tooltip ()

void
gtk_status_icon_set_tooltip (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
                             const gchar *tooltip_text);

Sets the tooltip of the status icon.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_set_tooltip_text ()

void
gtk_status_icon_set_tooltip_text (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
                                  const gchar *text);

Sets text as the contents of the tooltip.

This function will take care of setting “has-tooltip” to TRUE and of the default handler for the “query-tooltip” signal.

See also the “tooltip-text” property and gtk_tooltip_set_text().

Since 2.16

gtk_status_icon_get_tooltip_text ()

gchar *
gtk_status_icon_get_tooltip_text (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon);

Gets the contents of the tooltip for status_icon .

Since 2.16

gtk_status_icon_set_tooltip_markup ()

void
gtk_status_icon_set_tooltip_markup (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
                                    const gchar *markup);

Sets markup as the contents of the tooltip, which is marked up with the Pango text markup language.

This function will take care of setting “has-tooltip” to TRUE and of the default handler for the “query-tooltip” signal.

See also the “tooltip-markup” property and gtk_tooltip_set_markup().

Since 2.16

gtk_status_icon_get_tooltip_markup ()

gchar *
gtk_status_icon_get_tooltip_markup (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon);

Gets the contents of the tooltip for status_icon .

Since 2.16

gtk_status_icon_set_has_tooltip ()

void
gtk_status_icon_set_has_tooltip (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
                                 gboolean has_tooltip);

Sets the has-tooltip property on status_icon to has_tooltip . See “has-tooltip” for more information.

Since 2.16

gtk_status_icon_get_has_tooltip ()

gboolean
gtk_status_icon_get_has_tooltip (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon);

Returns the current value of the has-tooltip property. See “has-tooltip” for more information.

Since 2.16

gtk_status_icon_set_title ()

void
gtk_status_icon_set_title (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
                           const gchar *title);

Sets the title of this tray icon. This should be a short, human-readable, localized string describing the tray icon. It may be used by tools like screen readers to render the tray icon.

Since 2.18

gtk_status_icon_get_title ()

const gchar *
gtk_status_icon_get_title (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon);

Gets the title of this tray icon. See gtk_status_icon_set_title().

Since 2.18

gtk_status_icon_set_name ()

void
gtk_status_icon_set_name (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
                          const gchar *name);

Sets the name of this tray icon. This should be a string identifying this icon. It is may be used for sorting the icons in the tray and will not be shown to the user.

Since 2.20

gtk_status_icon_set_visible ()

void
gtk_status_icon_set_visible (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
                             gboolean visible);

Shows or hides a status icon.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_get_visible ()

gboolean
gtk_status_icon_get_visible (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon);

Returns whether the status icon is visible or not. Note that being visible does not guarantee that the user can actually see the icon, see also gtk_status_icon_is_embedded().

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_set_blinking ()

void
gtk_status_icon_set_blinking (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
                              gboolean blinking);

Makes the status icon start or stop blinking. Note that blinking user interface elements may be problematic for some users, and thus may be turned off, in which case this setting has no effect.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_get_blinking ()

gboolean
gtk_status_icon_get_blinking (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon);

Returns whether the icon is blinking, see gtk_status_icon_set_blinking().

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_is_embedded ()

gboolean
gtk_status_icon_is_embedded (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon);

Returns whether the status icon is embedded in a notification area.

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_position_menu ()

void
gtk_status_icon_position_menu (GtkMenu *menu,
                               gint *x,
                               gint *y,
                               gboolean *push_in,
                               gpointer user_data);

Menu positioning function to use with gtk_menu_popup() to position menu aligned to the status icon user_data .

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_get_geometry ()

gboolean
gtk_status_icon_get_geometry (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
                              GdkScreen **screen,
                              GdkRectangle *area,
                              GtkOrientation *orientation);

Obtains information about the location of the status icon on screen. This information can be used to e.g. position popups like notification bubbles.

See gtk_status_icon_position_menu() for a more convenient alternative for positioning menus.

Note that some platforms do not allow GTK+ to provide this information, and even on platforms that do allow it, the information is not reliable unless the status icon is embedded in a notification area, see gtk_status_icon_is_embedded().

Since 2.10

gtk_status_icon_get_x11_window_id ()

guint32
gtk_status_icon_get_x11_window_id (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon);

This function is only useful on the X11/freedesktop.org platform. It returns a window ID for the widget in the underlying status icon implementation. This is useful for the Galago notification service, which can send a window ID in the protocol in order for the server to position notification windows pointing to a status icon reliably.

This function is not intended for other use cases which are more likely to be met by one of the non-X11 specific methods, such as gtk_status_icon_position_menu().

Since 2.14

struct GtkStatusIcon

struct GtkStatusIcon;

The “blinking” property

  “blinking”                 gboolean

Whether or not the status icon is blinking.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

The “embedded” property

  “embedded”                 gboolean

TRUE if the statusicon is embedded in a notification area.

Flags: Read

Default value: FALSE

Since 2.12

The “file” property

  “file”                     gchar *

Filename to load and display.

Flags: Write

Default value: NULL

The “gicon” property

  “gicon”                    GIcon *

The GIcon displayed in the GtkStatusIcon. For themed icons, the image will be updated automatically if the theme changes.

Flags: Read / Write

Since 2.14

The “has-tooltip” property

  “has-tooltip”              gboolean

Enables or disables the emission of “query-tooltip” on status_icon . A value of TRUE indicates that status_icon can have a tooltip, in this case the status icon will be queried using “query-tooltip” to determine whether it will provide a tooltip or not.

Note that setting this property to TRUE for the first time will change the event masks of the windows of this status icon to include leave-notify and motion-notify events. This will not be undone when the property is set to FALSE again.

Whether this property is respected is platform dependent. For plain text tooltips, use “tooltip-text” in preference.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

Since 2.16

The “icon-name” property

  “icon-name”                gchar *

The name of the icon from the icon theme.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: NULL

The “orientation” property

  “orientation”              GtkOrientation

The orientation of the tray in which the statusicon is embedded.

Flags: Read

Default value: GTK_ORIENTATION_HORIZONTAL

Since 2.12

The “pixbuf” property

  “pixbuf”                   GdkPixbuf *

A GdkPixbuf to display.

Flags: Read / Write

The “screen” property

  “screen”                   GdkScreen *

The screen where this status icon will be displayed.

Flags: Read / Write

The “size” property

  “size”                     gint

The size of the icon.

Flags: Read

Allowed values: >= 0

Default value: 0

The “stock” property

  “stock”                    gchar *

Stock ID for a stock image to display.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: NULL

The “storage-type” property

  “storage-type”             GtkImageType

The representation being used for image data.

Flags: Read

Default value: GTK_IMAGE_EMPTY

The “title” property

  “title”                    gchar *

The title of this tray icon. This should be a short, human-readable, localized string describing the tray icon. It may be used by tools like screen readers to render the tray icon.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: NULL

Since 2.18

The “tooltip-markup” property

  “tooltip-markup”           gchar *

Sets the text of tooltip to be the given string, which is marked up with the Pango text markup language. Also see gtk_tooltip_set_markup().

This is a convenience property which will take care of getting the tooltip shown if the given string is not NULL. “has-tooltip” will automatically be set to TRUE and the default handler for the “query-tooltip” signal will take care of displaying the tooltip.

On some platforms, embedded markup will be ignored.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: NULL

Since 2.16

The “tooltip-text” property

  “tooltip-text”             gchar *

Sets the text of tooltip to be the given string.

Also see gtk_tooltip_set_text().

This is a convenience property which will take care of getting the tooltip shown if the given string is not NULL. “has-tooltip” will automatically be set to TRUE and the default handler for the “query-tooltip” signal will take care of displaying the tooltip.

Note that some platforms have limitations on the length of tooltips that they allow on status icons, e.g. Windows only shows the first 64 characters.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: NULL

Since 2.16

The “visible” property

  “visible”                  gboolean

Whether or not the status icon is visible.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE

The “activate” signal

void
user_function (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
               gpointer       user_data)

Gets emitted when the user activates the status icon. If and how status icons can activated is platform-dependent.

Unlike most G_SIGNAL_ACTION signals, this signal is meant to be used by applications and should be wrapped by language bindings.

Flags: Action

Since 2.10

The “button-press-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
               GdkEvent      *event,
               gpointer       user_data)

The ::button-press-event signal will be emitted when a button (typically from a mouse) is pressed.

Whether this event is emitted is platform-dependent. Use the ::activate and ::popup-menu signals in preference.

Flags: Run Last

Since 2.14

The “button-release-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
               GdkEvent      *event,
               gpointer       user_data)

The ::button-release-event signal will be emitted when a button (typically from a mouse) is released.

Whether this event is emitted is platform-dependent. Use the ::activate and ::popup-menu signals in preference.

Flags: Run Last

Since 2.14

The “popup-menu” signal

void
user_function (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
               guint          button,
               guint          activate_time,
               gpointer       user_data)

Gets emitted when the user brings up the context menu of the status icon. Whether status icons can have context menus and how these are activated is platform-dependent.

The button and activate_time parameters should be passed as the last to arguments to gtk_menu_popup().

Unlike most G_SIGNAL_ACTION signals, this signal is meant to be used by applications and should be wrapped by language bindings.

Flags: Action

Since 2.10

The “query-tooltip” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
               gint           x,
               gint           y,
               gboolean       keyboard_mode,
               GtkTooltip    *tooltip,
               gpointer       user_data)

Emitted when the “gtk-tooltip-timeout” has expired with the cursor hovering above status_icon ; or emitted when status_icon got focus in keyboard mode.

Using the given coordinates, the signal handler should determine whether a tooltip should be shown for status_icon . If this is the case TRUE should be returned, FALSE otherwise. Note that if keyboard_mode is TRUE, the values of x and y are undefined and should not be used.

The signal handler is free to manipulate tooltip with the therefore destined function calls.

Whether this signal is emitted is platform-dependent. For plain text tooltips, use “tooltip-text” in preference.

Flags: Run Last

Since 2.16

The “scroll-event” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
               GdkEvent      *event,
               gpointer       user_data)

The ::scroll-event signal is emitted when a button in the 4 to 7 range is pressed. Wheel mice are usually configured to generate button press events for buttons 4 and 5 when the wheel is turned.

Whether this event is emitted is platform-dependent.

Flags: Run Last

The “size-changed” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkStatusIcon *status_icon,
               gint           size,
               gpointer       user_data)

Gets emitted when the size available for the image changes, e.g. because the notification area got resized.

Flags: Run Last

Since 2.10