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Peter's Gekko » Minimizing apps, (sometimes) in the system tray
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Minimizing apps, (sometimes) in the system tray

Several apps, like Outlook 2003 and FeedDemon, can minimize into the system tray, the right corner of the Windows taskbar. This is handy, they are allways avaliable but only take up real task-bar space when maximized. On my machine this only works under certain conditions. When I click the minimize button they're off into the system tray, when I press <Alt ><Esc> they minimize into the task bar. Is this a bug, a feature or a setting ?

Peter

Posted Tue, Feb 17 2004 8:50 AM by pvanooijen

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Thomas Tomiczek wrote re: Minimizing apps, (sometimes) in the system tray
on Tue, Feb 17 2004 6:12 AM
This is simply they way they are programmed. Nothing stops you from doing the same.
Peter van Ooijen wrote re: Minimizing apps, (sometimes) in the system tray
on Tue, Feb 17 2004 6:25 AM
Both (alt-esc and the button) are part of the Windows API. You can minimize any app that way..
Ryan Gregg wrote re: Minimizing apps, (sometimes) in the system tray
on Tue, Feb 17 2004 10:25 AM
Sounds like a bug to me, I can't see why you would want two different standard ways of minimizing an application to produce two different behaviors. Perhaps the Alt-Esc hot key for minimize triggers different events to minimize the window?
Paul Laudeman wrote re: Minimizing apps, (sometimes) in the system tray
on Tue, Feb 17 2004 10:27 AM
If you'd like to add this minimize to Notification Tray functionality for all your programs (and be able to set window transparency, app priority, and pin windows), you might want to check out PowerMenu: http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/

Can't live without it! <g>
Peter van Ooijen wrote re: Minimizing apps, (sometimes) in the system tray
on Wed, Feb 18 2004 9:51 AM
Sounds like a bug to me too. Only on my machine ? But I'm not going to install a tool to fix it.

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