stalonetray command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix stalonetray command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

stalonetray: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: stalonetray: command not found

Solutions to stalonetray: command not found

How To Fix stalonetray: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu stalonetray is provided by stalonetray package.

stalonetray is:

stalonetray is an implementation of system tray application (aka notificaton area) according to freedesktop.org specification; support for KDE icons included.

stalonetray is a stand-alone system tray (notification area) for X Window System/X11 (e.g. X.Org or XFree 86). It has full XEMBED support and minimal dependencies: an X11 lib only. Stalonetray works with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager.

Window managers that are reported to work well with stalonetray:

  • FVWM
  • OpenBox
  • Enlightenment
  • ion3

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install stalonetray

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install stalonetray.

sudo apt -y install stalonetray

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install stalonetray

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix stalonetray command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.