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.
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”.
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…
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.
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.