Claws-mail can't minimize itself on startup

[zaza42]

A small bug again in git-20180305: At startup claws-mail remains on screen forever instead of minimize to systrem tray after some seconds. I can see a little black blink in window after some seconds - so i think that time it tried to minimize itself. After I click on tray icon it moves to the tray...but in 1.4.2 there was no need for any interaction.

[gijsbers]

How do you configure claws-mail to minimize itself to the system tray?

[zaza42]

There is a claws-mail-multi-notifier plugin for it. It has a very simple interface: When the window blinks black for a moment the icon appears in systray.

Update: new effect: when i change workspace very early at startup, the claws-mail window respawns at the current workspace when creating tray icon.

[gijsbers]

All minimization problems on startup are duplicate of bug #190.

[gijsbers]

@zaza42 is this still a problem for you?

[zaza42]

Yes, claws-mail can't be started with automatically minimized.

[pankajk1997]

1. Install Claws-mail tray notifier: sudo apt install claws-mail-multi-notifier
2. Load the plugin from Claws Mail: Configuration -> Plugins
3. Configure the plugin from Claws Mail: Configuration -> Preferences
4. Now Add or Edit a file named claws-mail.desktop in startup directory having following content:-

Content of: ~/.config/autostart/claws-mail.desktop

[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Claws Mail GenericName=E-mail client Exec=sh -c "sleep 10 && claws-mail &" Icon=claws-mail Categories=Network;Email; Keywords=lightweight;fast;gui;extensible;plugin;pop;pop3;imap;imap4;nntp;news; Comment=Lightweight and Fast GTK+ based Mail Client Terminal=false Type=Application StartupNotify=true X-Info=Claws Mail

[zaza42]

The new version in Debian (1.4.3.0~pre-20180809) doesn't need this kind of hack, minimize on startup works like a charm.

[OdinVex]

Using same options, Linux Mint, Claws always shows on startup even with .desktop work-around. Never remembers that its last state was also Maximized. (I always have it Maximized when using it and close to tray, never starts Minimized to tray and doesn't open to Maximized state when opened from tray/notifications.)

[gijsbers]

In your IceWM winoptions file, do you have:

claws-mail.mainwindow.startMinimized: 1

What is the output of claws-mail --version-full? What does the file /etc/os-release say about your Mint release version? You did install and configure the plugin like mentioned above?

[OdinVex]

In your IceWM winoptions file, do you have:

claws-mail.mainwindow.startMinimized: 1

What is the output of claws-mail --version-full? What does the file /etc/os-release say about your Mint release version? You did install and configure the plugin like mentioned above?

NAME="Linux Mint"
VERSION="20 (Ulyana)"
ID=linuxmint
ID_LIKE=ubuntu
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 20"
VERSION_ID="20"
HOME_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://linuxmint-troubleshooting-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.linuxmint.com/"
VERSION_CODENAME=ulyana
UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal

claws-mail.mainwindow.startMinimized: 1

Claws Mail version 3.17.5
runtime GTK+ 2.24.32 / GLib 2.64.3
buildtime GTK+ 2.24.32 / GLib 2.63.5
Compiled-in features:
compface
Enchant
GnuTLS
IPv6
iconv
LDAP
libetpan 1.9
libSM
librSVG 2.46.4

IceWM...Oh woops, I should be hitting up Claws Mail. facepalm Using Mint's default DM, plugin installed and configured. This was the only place I found with any info about Claws Mail and minimizing, so I thought to query here.