The "system tray" is an application running on a given X screen that can display small icons provided by running applications. Windows XP calls this feature the "notification area." Inspired by KDE, this specification uses the term "system tray."  


## Links

* [[http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-0.2.html|http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-0.2.html]]