Option for disabling the system tray #7160

issue ghost opened this issue on December 3, 2015

ghost commented at 10:11 AM on December 3, 2015: none

It would be cool if there was an option in Bitcoin Core for disabling the system tray entirely.
jonasschnelli added the label GUI on Dec 3, 2015
jonasschnelli commented at 12:07 PM on December 3, 2015: contributor

I think this could be useful. Also we could allow the tray function on OSX (Global Menu Bar) and hide it by default.
laanwj commented at 12:08 PM on December 3, 2015: member

I tend to agree. At some point that may even be the default, it looks like system trays (at least for application use) are on their way out?
jonasschnelli commented at 12:12 PM on December 3, 2015: contributor

At some point that may even be the default, it looks like system trays (at least for application use) are on their way out?

Hah. Right. Users and app devs probably figured out that the Windows Tray and the OSX Global Menu slowly mutates towards a application launcher...
ghost commented at 8:38 AM on December 4, 2015: none

I can't speak for people using either Windows or Mac OS. I use GNOME under GNU/Linux and I find the system tray annoying. Instead I keep each application window opened in a separate workspace.
jonasschnelli added the label Feature on Dec 4, 2015
MarcoFalke commented at 10:28 AM on May 12, 2016: member

@jonasschnelli Anything left to do here?
jonasschnelli commented at 10:32 AM on May 12, 2016: contributor

Fixed by #8006.
jonasschnelli closed this on May 12, 2016
ghost commented at 6:46 AM on August 2, 2016: none

It's strange, but I can't see any option in the Window tab or elsewhere for disabling the system tray with Bitcoin v0.12.1.0-g9779e1e. I also tried adding the hideTrayIcon=1 in ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf but it doesn't work. The system tray icon is still there.
jonasschnelli commented at 8:02 AM on August 2, 2016: contributor

@fturco: the system tray features is not included in 0.12.1, its a 0.13 features (you maybe want to test the 0.13.0rc2 binaries: https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.13.0/test.rc2/).
ghost commented at 9:04 AM on August 2, 2016: none

Sorry, I didn't know that. Anyway I think I'll wait for the 0.13 release to be included with my Linux distribution updates. I'm not in a hurry :)
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#8006 Qt: Add option to disable the system tray icon