I want to be able to minimize some apps, like Thunderbird, to the system tray. I'm unable to find an option to do so by default, and Googling it gives me results for Gnome 3 extensions.
Anyone know of a Mate or Gnome 2 extension that enables minimizing to tray? Preferably one that adds an extra button to all titlebars next to the standard ones. Thanks!
System tray can mean so many different things to different people. If you mean Mac-like behavior, you can use the Cupertino panel layout, and use the Plank. You would find it in Mate Tweak. The Plank can be configured to sit at any edge of the screen, and various hiding options are available. The regular minimize button is all that is needed.
Sorry, I'm using the Gnome 2 layout. I'm talking about the "notification area" panel applet.
As @charles-nix stated can mean different things. Not grasping per my use what the extra button would do as I consider the panel as tray. Sort of think it might depend on the app. In screenshot Ksnip is set in settings and shows in Indicator Applet. Not shown is Truecrypt which puts icon (not shown in screenshot I have off as it multiplies) to left of Indicator Applet. Possibly this is what you are talking about. Depends on app if option is available for this.
Just some options.
Thanks for the reply. I want to minimize a window into the "Notification Area" applet pictured:
(or XApp Status Applet, as you point out)
Ideally, I would want a button positioned right next to the other caption buttons (the green x, in this case) which would minimize any program's window to that applet.
Is there no such thing? Any application that can add extra buttons of any type to the title bar of windows that could maybe be hacked to perform this function?
On Windows, I used DisplayFusion, which had a similar ability.
