Minimize Any Application to the System Tray May 24, 2006
Posted by Carthik in applications, ubuntu.trackback
The other day I wanted to minimize the gnome-terminal to the system tray. Why? Because I thought I should be able to, if I wanted to.
Some apps, such as gaim, the instant messenger already support minimizing to the system tray. So if you click the close button in gaim when you are logged in, the app disappears from the list of windows, and an icon appears in the system tray, which you can then click to bring the main window back to life.
Turns out, with AllTray, you can minimize any app to the system tray. To install, you can use this repository that is linked-to from the alltray homepage. This is probably one of the few cases when the software I wanted wasn’t already in the Ubuntu reporsitories.
The above screenshot from the AllTray website shows it working in GNOME. Don’t you love it?
Ubuntu Blog 
Thank you sooo much for this!
將程式縮至工具列…
今天看到 Ubuntu blog 時看到這篇文章，發現只要安裝 alltray 這個軟體，就能夠把所有的應用程式縮到工具列圖示喔！…
what torrent client do you use ? i struggled to find one for linux.
ktorrent
Transmission
KGet
Vuge
That’s really cool! I’ve tried others, but they were all really buggy, or only for KDE.
Also, YAY! You’re back!
Yeah Tim,
It’s hard to find quality stuff to share with everyone 🙂
Metalsam, I don’t use torrent anymore, I used to use Azureus once upon a time, or just the commandline torrent utility.
can i automatize the minimizing with alltray?
alltray -l (whatever application you’d like to minimize at startup)
Goreat app! Thanks!
senki,
I wouldn’t know how one would automate the process. I am kind of lost here, since one certainly wouldn’t want all apps to be minimized to the tray?
i cant get BMP or XMMS to work with alltray… argh…. X..-(
thanks for this one!
ubuntu blog strikes again! keep up the awesome work my friend..
[…] Ayer encontré aquí una aplicación muy útil. Lo que hace es minimizar en el área de notificación cualquier aplicación que se elija. Su uso es muy sencillo. Aplicaciones > Accesiorios > AllTray y click en la ventana que se vaya a minimizar. […]
I’m new to Ubuntu… how do I get this all tray… I’m a windows user but have Ubuntu 6.06 installed and want this all tray… so how do I get it?
[…] I was just wondering if that was possible. Minimize Any Application to the System Tray gave me the lead to AllTray and rpm for my FC5 could be found at alltray-0.69-1.fc5.i386.rpm […]
My new personal hero! ;o) Thx a bunch man
Awesome!!, thanks.
Awesome, thanks a bunch this is just Perfect for Netbooks like my Acer
Thie is really amazing!! Thanks a lot! Fedora Repositories have this eXcellent app..
Thanks heaps, I was looking to put a couple of things out of the way and am not a big fan of multiple desktops, this is so easy and was in the Jaunty repostiories, though I am not sure which one.
Alltray is a good app for starting stuff when you log in too.
sh -c “sleep 20 && alltray –sticky –no-alltray evolution –component=mail”
This is what i use to start my email client after a 20 second delay to give the system time to settle.
AllTray is in the Ubunu standard repo as of 10.4
Thanks!
Metalsam, I don’t use torrent anymore, I used to use Azureus once upon a time, or just the commandline torrent utility.
It’s hard to find quality stuff to share with everyone 🙂
Metalsam, I don’t use torrent anymore, I used to use Azureus once upon a time, or just the commandline torrent utility.
that’s i’m looking for! thanks