[sylpheed:33533] Re: Starting Sylpheed as a tray icon

[Bryan Kirk]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:57:43 +0100
Michael Ross <michael.ross at gmx.net> wrote:

> 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.)
> 
> 
Well, when I have the EXE made from the script (that has been modified to point to the location of Sylpheed on my PC) run during startup, it causes Sylpheed to display an error (twice) involving a dll used by GTK+ and a certain assertion not being found.