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minimize to tray

Post by Lebowsky » 2025-08-28, 20:52

just to be sure - do you need an addon to minimize Epyrus to tray? I used tb-tray back then with Fossamail and Interlink, but thought it might now be integrated, maybe? although I couldn't find a setting anywhere. and otherwise, what would be the most lightweight addone for this?
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Re: minimize to tray

Post by Bilbo47 » 2025-08-30, 16:05

Non-addons:
Iconize any app to tray with 7+ Taskbar Tweaker
Minimize programs to the system tray with Iconize
Minimize any window to system tray or to Iconic Tray
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Re: minimize to tray

Post by Lebowsky » 2025-09-03, 20:10

how do you iconize a given program to tray with 7+ Taskbar Tweaker? I'm on Win10. I couldn't find an option?

are there addons otherwise? Those two others really are very old. I looked into Windhawk mods but couldn't find one either
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Re: minimize to tray

Post by Moonchild » 2025-09-03, 20:46

There's "Trayy" which is an open source minimalist program to minimize applications to the system tray.
If you want more desktop enhancing functions you may want to look into Actual Tools/Actual Window Manager. They've been around for a long time and I've used their tools a lot in the past (just haven't really bothered to use it with Windows 10). IMHO worth the money and then some.
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Re: minimize to tray

Post by Lebowsky » 2025-09-19, 12:01

Thanks for pointing me to Trayy, I asked the dev and he made sure it works properly with Epyrus :) !
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Re: minimize to tray

Post by laki2 » 2025-12-26, 14:50

So I was wondering how to get this working on Linux since Epyrus does not include a minimize to tray setting. Kakusu (On the Epyrus add-ons store) does not work with epyrus anymore for some reason.

The solution:

Install FireTray from the Thunderbird addons store here:

https://services.addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/firetray/

This enables minimizing to tray in Linux and Windows.
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Re: minimize to tray

Post by Garland » 2025-12-27, 17:38

The FireTray add-on has been forked: https://github.com/Ximi1970/FireTray
New features and a fix for Windows 10 x64. If I understand correctly, Thunderbird dropped XUL extension support in verion 61. So the Ximi1970 extension that works with TB v7 through v60 should be compatible with Epyrus.

I haven't installed Epyrus yet, but I am interested in user's experience with the Ximi1970 extension.
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