Tray Icon

Tray-Icon

Overview

TinkerGame offers a Tray Icon that automatically starts when TinkerGame does and is available until TinkerGame or the game exits. It is enabled by default on the Linux Desktop, but can be disabled with the Tray Icon checkbox in the Global Menu, or the USETRAYICON value in the Global Config.

Right-clicking the icon in the system tray will open the menu, and middle-clicking will remove the tray icon for that session.

On Steam Deck, the Tray Icon is disabled in Game Mode and is only available in Desktop Mode.

Tray Icon Options

• Kill Proton Game - Kills the currently running Proton game by killing its wineserver process via Proton Kill-Switch
• Pause/Unpause active window - Waits 5 seconds and un-/pauses the process of the currently active window
• Shader Menu - Opens the Shader Management menu for the currently running game (shaders can also be added/removed on the fly here)
• Open running game in VR - Opens the running game in SBS-VR, if available and if the current window name is correctly detected by TinkerGame (see below)
• Pick Window Name - The name of the picked window will be stored as GAMEWINDOW in the Metadata file
• Steam Reset Collections - Shortcut for the steam command steam://resetcollections - mostly for when you run into issues with adding a Non-Steam Game
• Update Window Template - Template config for the currently open window will be updated with the current size, as soon as the window closes - see GUI Window Size
• Launch custom script - Start the custom user script at /dev/shm/tinkergame/customscript - optionally used by Flat2VR
• Game Files - Opens the Game Files easily via the menu
• Open an Issue - Opens the issue tracker on GitHub in the user's default web browser (requires xdg-utils)

Known Issues

Wayland

The Tray Icon may not function correctly on Wayland, particularly on the Plasma Wayland session with multi-screen configurations. The Yad tray icon does not work natively on Wayland and relies on Xwayland (by setting the GDK_BACKEND=x11 flag before its creation).

Availability

The TinkerGame Tray Icon availability may vary based on your desktop environment, as with all application tray icons. If there is no tray or panel for the icon to appear in, you will not have access to the Tray Icon. If you do not see the tray icon for other applications (e.g. Steam), then you won't see it for TinkerGame either.

GNOME Tray Icons Reloaded Extension

As of 21/03/2023 there appears to be an issue with the GNOME Tray Icons Reloaded extension that causes the TinkerGame tray icon to conflict with other tray icons. This was reported specifically with Steam's tray icon from this comment on #765.