How big is your system tray?

[bear95]

For fun 

[baldgye]

I keep mine as tidy as possible, only things I have displayed at all times are the volume control and the wifi access thing. Everything else is hidden (bar the time etc)... Oh and I have my taskbar set to smaller icons so I've got more desktop space, like a boss.

[Frenir]

I would say that mine is a tad too big.

[JaccoW]

Temperature, Internet, volume, dropbox and f.lux

[baldgye]

I'll post a pic becasue why the hell not

[Frenir]

I'll post a pic becasue why the hell not

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That was how mine looked before I got wired internet and made media keys with Autohotkey.

[fohat.digs]

Maybe a dozen pieces, including date and time, after boot-up.

It is rare that I have more than half a dozen additional others open, even after hours of use.

It is my habit to open programs to use them, and close them when I finish. I generally prefer to open and close a program a dozen times during a day than to simply leave it open. Same with internet tabs.

Perhaps I am too concerned with "lean and mean" but when I started working with computers (1984) one of my instructors bought a new computer. In a "bragging" conversation, he told one of the other instructors that he had 384K of RAM. "Three hundred and eighty-four K! That is obscene!" was the reply.

[Sifo]

I hide **** I don't need fast access to (like the million IM programs or useless **** like Windows Updates that I do need to look at once in a while)

[Frenir]

I hide **** I don't need fast access to (like the million IM programs or useless **** like Windows Updates that I do need to look at once in a while)

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Truth.

[baldgye]

I hide **** I don't need fast access to (like the million IM programs or useless **** like Windows Updates that I do need to look at once in a while)

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you has xfire?? I felt like I was the only one :O

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

WinXP ftl (work computer)

[Sifo]

I hide **** I don't need fast access to (like the million IM programs or useless **** like Windows Updates that I do need to look at once in a while)

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you has xfire?? I felt like I was the only one :O

had since like .................... who knows how ****ing long 2006~ and just never stopped using.

[Frenir]

This is one of my secondary monitors.

[baldgye]

I hide **** I don't need fast access to (like the million IM programs or useless **** like Windows Updates that I do need to look at once in a while)

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you has xfire?? I felt like I was the only one :O

had since like .................... who knows how ****ing long 2006~ and just never stopped using.

Yeah, I'm pretty much the same, installed it back for CoD3? becasue thats what the cod players used back in the day. I find it kinda useful for having the time and fps up in games... i should probably use something else instead, but then WHO WILL TRACK HOW MUCH OF MY LIFE IS WASTED IN SC2?! :P

[osi]

[Frenir]

I hide **** I don't need fast access to (like the million IM programs or useless **** like Windows Updates that I do need to look at once in a while)

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you has xfire?? I felt like I was the only one :O

had since like .................... who knows how ****ing long 2006~ and just never stopped using.

Yeah, I'm pretty much the same, installed it back for CoD3? becasue thats what the cod players used back in the day. I find it kinda useful for having the time and fps up in games... i should probably use something else instead, but then WHO WILL TRACK HOW MUCH OF MY LIFE IS WASTED IN SC2?! :P

What does it do?

[baldgye]

I hide **** I don't need fast access to (like the million IM programs or useless **** like Windows Updates that I do need to look at once in a while)

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you has xfire?? I felt like I was the only one :O

had since like .................... who knows how ****ing long 2006~ and just never stopped using.

Yeah, I'm pretty much the same, installed it back for CoD3? becasue thats what the cod players used back in the day. I find it kinda useful for having the time and fps up in games... i should probably use something else instead, but then WHO WILL TRACK HOW MUCH OF MY LIFE IS WASTED IN SC2?! :P

What does it do?

It's like Steams ingame stuff, cept it works with nearly all games, and tracks the time spent in said games;

www.xfire.com/users/baldgye

for example... its not great though

[Sifo]

http://xfire.com/users/sifo007

^_^ Steam except without ****ty interface.

[Frenir]

I hide **** I don't need fast access to (like the million IM programs or useless **** like Windows Updates that I do need to look at once in a while)

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you has xfire?? I felt like I was the only one :O

had since like .................... who knows how ****ing long 2006~ and just never stopped using.

Yeah, I'm pretty much the same, installed it back for CoD3? becasue thats what the cod players used back in the day. I find it kinda useful for having the time and fps up in games... i should probably use something else instead, but then WHO WILL TRACK HOW MUCH OF MY LIFE IS WASTED IN SC2?! :P

What does it do?

It's like Steams ingame stuff, cept it works with nearly all games, and tracks the time spent in said games;

www.xfire.com/users/baldgye

for example... its not great though

So like, for the pirate who wants to track game time.

http://xfire.com/users/sifo007

^_^ Steam except without ****ty interface.

You know you can change steams interface right?

I use Windows 8 Skin.

[Sifo]

You know you can change steams interface right?

I use Windows 8 Skin.

I still don't like it the way it's set up, not just the aesthetics.

[Frenir]

You know you can change steams interface right?

I use Windows 8 Skin.

I still don't like it the way it's set up, not just the aesthetics.

Fair enough

[baldgye]

You know you can change steams interface right?

I use Windows 8 Skin.

I still don't like it the way it's set up, not just the aesthetics.

You say that...

[Sifo]

Why do I need anything more? IM, launch games that I actually have installed, and fast access to sexy singles in my local area!





Anyway done derailing thread.

[Frenir]

You know you can change steams interface right?

I use Windows 8 Skin.

I still don't like

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Why do I need anything more? IM, launch games that I actually have installed, and fast access to sexy singles in my local area!





Anyway done derailing thread.

 it the way it's set up, not just the aesthetics.

You say that...

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Oh god that looks horrible, like a flashback from 2007.

[microsoft windows]

I prefer to have the fewest number of background processes running, thus keeping the system tray as empty as possible.

[Frenir]

I prefer to have the fewest number of background processes running, thus keeping the system tray as empty as possible.

Hmmm, I'm pleasantly surprised - this was far from what I expected to read from microsoft windows.

[microsoft windows]

I prefer to have the fewest number of background processes running, thus keeping the system tray as empty as possible.

Hmmm, I'm pleasantly surprised - this was far from what I expected to read from microsoft windows.

Well, when your computer is 15 years old, you tend to want it to run as lean as possible! So I try and keep the system tray nice and clear.

But for my desktop...that's another story.

[Smasher816]

I don't have a tray... Well unless you count i3wm's bar - it just has the time and some other basic info.

And wow - Xfire. I haven't used that since the old BF2 days. It's probably been like 7 years...

[exitfire401]

I have way too much in mine. Also, ive mived from xfire to raptr. The rewards system is pretty awesome, and you get a ton of free stuff.

[bear95]

I personally like seeing everything that is running on my system tray. So that i know whats running and I enable to show in system tray if i'm given the option :/

[davkol]

Let's see... Redshift (like f.lux, but open-source), Pidgin (IM client) and Audacious (music player); the rest is system stuff: a clipboard manager (y'know, I can have like 10 things in the clipboard), a list of connected devices (like external HDD) and the rest is hidden.

[Lu_e]

[cpt.charisma]

Depends on whether Caps Lock is on:

[davkol]