add awesome-tray.el to put the modeline info into the echo area

settings/gui-settings.el

@@ -92,6 +92,42 @@
     )
   )
 
+(use-package awesome-tray
+  :defer 0.2
+  :config
+  (setq awesome-tray-info-padding-right 1)
+  (setq awesome-tray-buffer-name-buffer-changed t)
+  (setq awesome-tray-mode-line-active-color "#008b8b")
+  (setq awesome-tray-mode-line-inactive-color "#333333")
+  ;; see available modules in `awesome-tray-module-alist'
+  (defun my-awesome-tray-module-flycheck-info ()
+    (string-trim (flycheck-mode-line-status-text)))
+  (defface my-awesome-tray-module-flycheck-face
+    (list (list t (list :foreground (face-foreground 'font-lock-warning-face))))
+    "Flycheck module face."
+    :group 'awesome-tray)
+  (add-to-list 'awesome-tray-module-alist
+    '("flycheck" . (my-awesome-tray-module-flycheck-info my-awesome-tray-module-flycheck-face)))
+  (setq awesome-tray-active-modules  ;; circe parent-dir battery
+    '("file-path"
+      "buffer-name"
+      "buffer-read-only"
+      "location"
+      "mode-name"
+      "flycheck"
+      "git"))
+  (set-face-foreground 'awesome-tray-module-file-path-face (face-foreground 'font-lock-keyword-face))
+  (set-face-foreground 'awesome-tray-module-buffer-name-face (face-foreground 'font-lock-constant-face))
+  (set-face-foreground 'awesome-tray-module-location-face (face-foreground 'vertical-border))
+  (set-face-foreground 'awesome-tray-module-mode-name-face (face-foreground 'font-lock-string-face))
+  (defun my-awesome-tray-module-file-path-info-advice (&rest args)
+    "If file path is same as buffer name omit output."
+    (if (string= (car args) (awesome-tray-module-buffer-name-info))
+        ""
+      (car args)))
+  (advice-add 'awesome-tray-module-file-path-info :filter-return #'my-awesome-tray-module-file-path-info-advice)
+  (awesome-tray-mode 1))
+
 (use-package doc-view
   :defer t
   :delight (doc-view-mode "🅓ｏｃ")  ;; "DocView"