hello
just updated the application and got an icon a the upper right corner.
i can’t find how to remove this icon…
do you know?
here is a screenshot…
thank you…
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Is that Thunderbird or a perhaps a separate widget of some kind for launching Thunderbird?
Does Thunderbird appear when you click the icon?
Perhaps adopt a habit of closing Thunderbird using the “File → Exit” dialog.
Just a few thoughts;
I’ve never encountered this otherwise.
Regards.
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Oh, you mean in the system tray. I wasn’t sure what I was looking at, but upon launching Thunderbird after the update, I see the icon now in my system tray too. It doesn’t seem to offer any option except to quit Thunderbird. Not sure of it’s use at the moment as Thunderbird doesn’t seem to minimize to tray anyway.
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It is an appicon in gnome - “AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support”
extension has no switch to hide it.
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so there is no simple way to hide it? perhaps even any way to hide?
At the moment there isn’t a good method to hide this systray icon. I am running xfce and it can be hidden (sort of) using the status tray plugin.
Status tray plugin setting:
TB systray icon shown:
TB systray icon hidden (sort of):
I am hoping for a better way via config editor, .css, or setting in preferences.
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You don’t–yet. 
There is an upstream bug report I saw recently, but I can’t find it right now.
EDIT: @steanne found it!
Should upstream listen to user feedback, someday there may be an option to disable and/or configure the tray icon. Thing is, the tray icon was introduced with 130.0beta last August based on a 25-year-old bug report, so don’t hold your breath.
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