Could you tell me how to use remote control?
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I try for some time and fail to understand it. Maybe you can give me an example.
Apologies for the delay. I tried digging through my email archive at the time that this feature was added, and I did not find much. I think the remote control is to enable keyboard-only interaction with tray icons: you can add a WM-level hotkey that would execute stalonetray remote click on a certain window inside the tray. I have never personally used this, so my experience is rather limited.
As far as an example goes, it should be something like this
stalonetray --remote-click-icon "Something"where "Something" is window name of an icon. This can be found by running xwininfo -root -tree and looking at the children windows of the stalonetray window.
However, there is a big caveat: most modern gui toolkits seem to filter-out synthetic events. There is a way to simulate user input via the XTest X11 extension, but I do not see much demand for such a feature. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42013047/difference-between-xtestfakebuttonevent-xsendevent for a discussion.