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Hello,
I recently forced Firefox and Thunderbird to stay in the systray, since i never close these applications. I the corresponding KWin configuration, i disabled the window borders and disabled them from the taskbar. All i want is to be able to open my thunderbird with a shortcut. I managed to do it with KDE applications like Konversation or Amarok, but with Firefox and Thunderbird, the shortcut is disabled Note : to enable the systray for Firefox, i went to the KDE menu Editor. Can someone help me , or managed to have a similar (working) configuration ? Thanks. |
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Moved to Workspace, since the issue isn't directly related to KWin (as far as I can tell).
Have you tried to use an extension like FireTray?
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Hello,
thanks for your quick answer. I tried FireTray, but i wasn't able to setup shortcut , neither form the module configuration or the KDE systray configuration |
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you (most likely) can't (unless the FF plugin provides on)
once a window is closed (sth. like "minimize to systray" does not exist. windows are either unmapped or destroyed) virtually only the client can restore it (by building a new X11 window from the state preserved inside the client) and firefox does not register it's shortcuts to the KDE shortcut system either. -> enter "xwininfo -tree -root" in konsole once the firefox window is "minimized to systray", and dump the output here (to check whether the window is only unmapped or destroyed. An only unmapped window - even an unmanaged one - could still be restored using external tools and you could bind a script to a kglobalaccel shortcut) Prepare for this being not possible and requiring feature addition from either FF or firetray |
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this my output of
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Was the firefox visible at the time you ran the command? |
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No, it was reduced as a systray icon.
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You *might* be able to map the window then.
If this shows the window, you can bind that commnd to a shortcut, but i fear xdotool only maps managed windows (iconified, not withdrawn) |
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