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Firetray
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Overview
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Js-ctypes rewrite of the binary XPCOM version of **Firetray**.
Features
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* for all applications:
* show/hide a single or all windows
* restore windows to their previous state, position, size
* restore each window to its original virtual desktop/workspace
* activate restored windows
* hide to tray on close
* hide to tray on minimize
* start minimized to tray
* show icon only when hidden to tray
* mouse scroll on tray icon shows/hides
* GTK-themable icons
* customizable tray icon
* popup menu (show/hide indivisual windows, open new windows, quit)
* adds `-showHide` option (useful for window manager's keyboard shortcuts)
* middle click on the tray icon activates last registered window
* for mail applications:
* display unread message count in tray icon
* display biff in tray icon when new messages
* include/exclude mail accounts to/from messages count
* include/exclude folders types to/from messages count
* count in sub-folders recursively
Notes
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* requires GTK+ 2.20 and higher.
* Firetray temporarily unsets the `tabs.warnOnClose` built-in preference, which otherwise disrupts the handeling of the close event.
* Experimental non-customizable keyboard shortcut for hiding all windows set to: `accel-shift-w`
References
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* if you're looking for other mozilla-desktop integration:
* Paul Neulinger's [Gnome-shell-Thunderbird integration](https://github.com/tanwald/gnome-shell-extension-thunderbird-integration "gnome-shell-thunderbird integration")
* Mike Conley's
[Unity-Thunderbird integration](http://mozillalabs.com/messaging/messaging-menu/
"Unity-Thunderbird integration")
* discontinued [Mozilla New Mail Icon (Biff)](https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/thunderbird/addon/new-mail-icon/)
* [Alltray](http://alltray.trausch.us/ "alltray") launches any applications
into tray
KNOWN BUGS
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* windows aren't restored with the same z-order, but there is [no means to correct that under Linux](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156333 "GetZOrderDOMWindowEnumerator is broken on Linux")
* notifications for excluded mail account servers are not
disabled. Newmailalerts are
[hard-coded](http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/find?string=content/newmailalert)
and we can't easily disable them on a per-server basis (only globally, see
`mail.biff.show_alert`). The proper way would probably be to disable default
notifications globally, and handle notifications ourselves. This is out of
the scope of this addon, but you may want to give a try to the
[MailAlert extension](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/mailbox-alert/)
* child windows (compose message, preferences, ...) are not handled by
Firetray. For ex., they are not hidden along with there top-level window.
* because of `getNumNewMessages()`'s
[strange behaviour](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727460),
it's impossible to display an accurate count of *new messages*. The best we
can do is display a biff icon.
* POP users should set
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Automatically_Download_Messages](Automatically
download new messages) to see new message. See
[this discussion](https://github.com/foudfou/FireTray/issues/20).
* some features [do not work well under Unity/Compiz](https://github.com/foudfou/FireTray/issues/22).
Acknowledgment
--------------
* Some code borrowed from [Mike Conley](http://mzl.la/messagingmenu "Thanks Mike").
* Some code borrowed from
[Nils Maier](https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/minimizetotray-revived/
"MinToTrayR addon page").
* kind support from Neil Deaking, Bobby Holley