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Plasma does not have system tray support at all: it converts xembed icons to SNI instead using xembedsniproxy. Perhaps lxqt could do it as well. Its only dependency besides qt5 seems to be kwindowsystem which is already used by liblxqt anyway.

Just a note, e.g. in debian xembedsniproxy is packaged into plasma-workspace and that's a real no-go, because with it you pull the (whole) KDE into your system.

If we would want to to use it, we must convince the KDE packagers to package xembedsniproxy standalone.

Heeeey I just happened to bump into this old thing and I'm wondering if we might not want to explore this with more seriousness. I know that over the past few years, KDE has done quite a bit to separate things out. I would be surprised if they might not be interested to do so here as well. I know KDE maintainers in Ubuntu I could talk to if this is still a thought worth considering…

One approach can also be including the xembedsniproxy into panel's code also. The code seems to be GPL...