oae / gnome-shell-minimize-to-tray

Minimize any app to tray

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/[e-mail]"

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.