Azureus and GAIM, in system tray for startup

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

This isn't really an Ubuntu specific question, but it applies to my Ubuntu
desktop.  

I found where to change the session programs so that I can start some
programs on login.  This works great with a few caveats.  

The first issue is with a program I wrote myself.  It will use the system
tray if the operating system supports it.  If I run it on login in the
session it doesn't go into the system tray.  The problem is that it
starts before the system tray and therefore doesn't believe that the OS it
is running under supports a system tray.  Right now I have a script that
waits a bit before running it and I've added that to my session.  This
works but seems like a hack.  Is there anyway to tell Ubuntu about
dependencies, tell it that my program requires the tray to have already
started?  

The next two are a bit less Ubuntu specific.  I would like for both GAIM
and Azureus to start in the system tray at login.  I don't want to see the
full windows.  Is there a way to tell these applications to just drop into
the tray without opening their windows?  Is there a standard way to handle
this under Gnome, or Ubuntu? 

Thanks.



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Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com>