On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 20:35 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

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How can qalculate-kde and/or kruler be started minimized in the KDE tray?

kstart --iconify qalculate-kde kstart --iconify kruler

After all this time I finally tried taking Rex D.'s advice. I found 1. It's a VERY bad idea to run kstart without using either the --window or --windowclass option. Strange things happen. 2. Qalculate-kde no longer goes into the system tray, because "Close to system tray" is no longer active in Qalc->Edit->Configure Qalculate!

Thanks - jon

On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 15:37 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:

Am 28.11.2012 15:31, schrieb Jonathan Ryshpan:

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On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 20:35 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:

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Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

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How can qalculate-kde and/or kruler be started minimized in the KDE tray?

kstart --iconify qalculate-kde kstart --iconify kruler

After all this time I finally tried taking Rex D.'s advice. I found 1. It's a VERY bad idea to run kstart without using either the --window or --windowclass option. Strange things happen. 2. Qalculate-kde no longer goes into the system tray, because "Close to system tray" is no longer active in Qalc->Edit->Configure Qalculate!

ksystraycmd whatever application

or install "alltray", start it and klick to whatever window of a running application

I obviously haven't been making myself clear. Both kruler and Qalc-kde start with icons representing them in the tray. But I want them to start with ONLY icons representing them in the tray, i.e. without them appearing on the desktop (at least till someone clicks on the tray icon.)

I would think that $ ksystraycmd --hidden --window 'Qalc*' qalculate-kde should do the job, but it doesn't; when invoked, the qalculate-kde window appears on the desktop.

Thanks - jon