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System Tray

The system tray is a tool that provides user access to system services, such as the common application framework (CAF).

The system tray appears as an icon in the taskbar of desktops on any operating system except UNIX. When you right-click the icon, you can select one of the services available from the context menu. If necessary, the system tray function requests further user interaction before the service is started.

The services that are available through the system tray and the visibility of the system tray icon in the taskbar (show or hide) are determined in the configuration policy.

During the run time of CA ITCM, you can control the system tray and its icon from the command line using the following commands:

cfSysTray

Starts the system tray if its state is set to Show in the configuration policy. The icon appears in the taskbar.

cfSysTray show

Starts the system tray (if not yet started) and sets its state to Show in the configuration policy. The icon appears in the taskbar.

cfSysTray stop

Stops the system tray. The system tray icon disappears from the taskbar.

cfSysTray hide

Stops the system tray and sets its state to Hide in the configuration policy. The system tray icon disappears from the taskbar.

The CA ITCM System Tray on Linux requires that the GIMP Toolkit GTK+ 1.2 (minimum version) is installed. The GTK is not shipped with CA ITCM; you must download the required version from www.gtk.org.