Trayer can be used as an XEmbed compatible dock for applications which need this in a Plasma 5 environment. Trayer is similar to wmsystemtray in that regard, but it looks better. In Plasma 5 you can start it like this and it will place itself in the lower right corner, directly above the Plasma 5 system tray, expanding its size on-demand: $ trayer --edge bottom --widthtype request --align right --distance 30 &