hi
for my manjaro kde wayland i installed the official repo of thunderbird and to my delight there now is a tray icon, howver it doesn minimize nor maximize and i cant find a setting to remove or change it in favor of just using birdtray instead.
anyone got any idea?
I don’t use Thunderbird, so I cannot comment on the functionality of its tray icon, although I am a little surprised that it doesn’t seem to do anything. I assume that right-clicking on it doesn’t offer any options such as minimize/maximize?
Anyway, to hide the TB tray icon, right-click on an empty part of the system tray (or on its arrow at the right which shows hidden icons). Select “Configure System Tray” to open the settings, then select “Entries”, change the Thunderbird entry to “Disabled” or “Always Hidden”, & then click “Apply”.
only option right clicking gives is quit
Looks like it just doesn’t work - I didn’t delete Thunderbird, though I don’t really use it either.
The tray icon is pretty useless as-is… closing Thunderbird window doesn’t leave it running in Tray, and if it’s running it’s also in the task manager.
The only function I see in the tray icon is that you can quit the app…
Same on Gnome btw
Lots of people have complained, and I think they’ll improve it in a future version, see the thunderbird issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1918035
or this discussion: Can't make thunderbird's icon at the upper right corner to disappear - #8 by steanne
It is its current state, it is just a start work that dates from last year or more, that has recently been imported in Thunderbird codebase, it works as intended.
Reference: Lack of docs · Issue #2 · thunderbird/linux-sys-tray · GitHub
It seems to work much the same as it’s Windows counterpart without providing much useful fuctionality.
I might suggest hiding it from the tray; assuming your Manjaro edition has that capability. At least then it won’t be using precious tray real-estate unnecessarily. 
In Plasma, for example, it can be achieved via;
System Tray Settings → Entries.
Thunderbird may need to be open while you’re finding the entry.
Regards.
