Minimised Thunderbird on startup?

[orschiro]

Dear @nmaier,

What a fantastic add-on.

Thank you so much! :-)

I have a question:

I added Thunderbird to the Startup Application Preferences on Ubuntu 16.10 to run on startup.

It currently opens with a maximised window. I need to click on the close button to have it minimised to tray thanks to your add-on.

My question to you:

Can you add an option to your add-on to launch Thunderbird directly minimised?

Yours,

Robert

[mattmart3]

I would appreciate it too.

[orschiro]

@matteomartelli,

For now I run this script on startup as a workaround:

orschiro@x230:~$ cat Software/close_windows_startup.sh 
#!/bin/bash
# Script enters into this while loop, and keeps checking
# if wmctrl -l lists firefox. Condition is true if firefox
# isn't there. When firefox appears, condition is false,
# loop exits

while ! [[ "$(wmctrl -lx)" =~ "Mail.Thunderbird" ]]
do
    # number of seconds can be changed for better precision
    # but shorter time equals more pressure on CPU
    sleep 1
done

# Only after firefox appears , we get to here
echo "Found Thunderbird, closing it now..."
sleep 1
wmctrl -c Thunderbird

# Same idea as before - we enter the waiting loop,
# and keep looping until Thunderbird is not on the list
while  [[ "$(wmctrl -lx)" =~ "Mail.Thunderbird" ]]
do
    sleep 1
done

#When loop exits, that means programs aren't on the list
echo "Script is done"

[mattmart3]

@orschiro Thank you very much. This is a very useful workaround.

[orschiro]

You are welcome. :-)

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:34 AM Matteo Martelli [email protected] wrote:

@orschiro https://github.com/orschiro Thank you very much. This is a very useful workaround.

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[orschiro]

Quick follow up: any news on implementing it directly into the add-on?