Add USR1 signal handlers to show widget menus #216
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This allows the menu to be displayed by sending a SIGUSR1 signal to a widget process.
Why
GNOME Shell does not support legacy tray icons, so I created a wrapper extension for use on GNOME. This extension simply sends a USR1 signal to widgets to open the menu.
https://github.com/apebl/gnome-ext-qubes-tray-widgets
Why not using tray icon extensions
The tray icon extensions I tested lead to shell crashes when a VM tries to create tray icons:
It seems that this issue is not specific to an extension but rather an incompatibility between GNOME and Qubes OS.
Instead of bothering with the problem, I decided to implement a simple alternative method as I described.