[sylpheed:33532] Re: Starting Sylpheed as a tray icon

[Michael Ross]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:49:22 -0500
Bryan Kirk <Zero3K at burntmail.com> wrote:


> > You set "Start minimized" in your (start-menu-/desktop-)shortcut
> > options and select "minimize to tray" in Sylpheed's options, I'd guess.
> > 
> I already tried doing that. It doesn't work as expected (the window is maximized when opened instead of being minimized to the system tray).
> 

Ok, I checked and it doesn't work here either.
Seems to be a sylpheed thing, as other gtk apps honour the shortcut
setting.

For the time being, if you feel like installing more software and don't
mind the maximized window popping up for a second I can recommend AutoIt

	http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/

which enables you to compile a script like

AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode",2)
Run("C:\Program Files (x86)\Sylpheed\sylpheed.exe","C:\Program Files
(x86)\Sylpheed") 
Sleep(1500)
WinSetState("Sylpheed","", at SW_MINIMIZE)

to a small exe, and use this to start sylpheed.
(Tested, works.)