Minimize to Tray

Minimize any app to tray

Requirements

Make sure you have xdotool, xwininfo, xprop, libwnck3 installed on your system.

Installation

From Git

git clone https://github.com/oae/gnome-shell-minimize-to-tray.git
cd ./gnome-shell-minimize-to-tray
yarn install
yarn build
ln -s "$PWD/dist" "$HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/minimize-to-tray@elhan.io"

From Ego

• You can install it from link below https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1750/minimize-to-tray/

Usage

• From the extension settings, you can click add button and select any opened window to put them in to tray

• There are three options for each application.

  • Change active status: You can disable the minimization for specific application
  • Minimize window on start: Whenever a new window opens for the application, it will automatically hide and minimize to tray
  • Keyboard shorcut support: This adds global keybindings to application window visibility. It currently supports <ctrl>, <alt>, <shift> and 0-9, a-z keys. If there are are more than one window for specific application, it will focus to last used window.

  

Development

• This extension is written in Typescript and uses webpack to compile it into javascript.
• Most dependencies have auto completion support thanks to this amazing project by @sammydre

• To start development, you need nodejs installed on your system;

  • Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/oae/gnome-shell-minimize-to-tray.git
  cd ./gnome-shell-minimize-to-tray

  • Install dependencies and build it

  yarn install
  yarn build

  • During development you can use yarn watch command to keep generated code up-to-date.