There’s a line between closing an application and leaving it open. That line generally lies within the notification area. This is where small apps usually hang out waiting to be quickly re-opened. But aren’t there times when you wish you could force an app not made for the notification area into that “quick recall” space? Well now you can with a handy little tool called AllTray.

AllTray is a tool that is available for UNIX-like systems that allows you to place applications that do not have a native icon for the notification area into the notification area. This makes those apps much more readily available and not in your way. In this article I am going to show you how to install and use AllTray in Fedora 13.

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