Signal-Desktop strange launch behavior

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#1

Signal-Desktop launches oddly in this o/s. On most other operating systems, when Signal is launched with the --start-in-tray --use-tray-icon command line options, the application launches minimized. With Manjaro, however, the application launches in a regular window. It is in the tray, but it’s weird to launch in an open window.

Obviously this is a very low-priority issue; but seems like a bug, when the behavior is noticeably different from other Linux’s & Windows.

Thanks,
Lance

#2

Welcome to the forum! :slight_smile:

Two things here…

  • First of all, make sure that you always start with an empty session, not with a restored session . If you have Plasma restore the previous session on login, and you had an application auto-started but running in the tray, then this application might get started a second time, and then this second session won’t be minimized to the tray.

  • I don’t use Signal Desktop, but if you right-click the title bar of the open window, then you’ll get a popup menu, from which you can choose “More Actions”, which gives you a submenu with two very important tweaking options. The one you want from that is “Special Application Settings”. You should be able to tell it there to start minimized.

#3

Thanks for the suggestions, unfortunately none helped:

  • I normally run with an empty session at boot. But even saving a session with Signal minimized didn’t help–Signal continued to open in a normal window.
  • Setting special window or application to minimized and clicking “on” won’t stick either. It keeps reverting to minimized “off.”

What’s the next step to reporting this as a bug? I’m new to Arch/Manjaro; I’ve been in Debian based distro’s for 20 years.

#4

Just tested this on XFCE stable. Behaviour is as expected, it starts nicely in the tray.

#5

Disregard, there was an odd “null,” or other nearly invisible character, that had snuck into my command line options when I copied & pasted them from a how-to web site.