Hey, the last time I using Spotify was around a years ago on my previous company desktop workstation running Ubuntu 16.06 (As far I remember). Today I installing Spotify to my Fedora 27. Seem minimize to tray when close windows options are completely missing (Last time it have, but need to configure) from Spotify setting.
I don’t like it work like now.. messy. So as workaround, let use kdocker to dock Spotify to tray. It available for most distro too (Fedora, Arch, Ubuntu, Debian).
Here some infomation from Fedora repo :
I checked under Task Manager, and the.exe file for the app suspends when you minimize it, and starts running again when you maximize it. I have a laptop that I also upgraded to Windows 10 from 8.1, and it doesn't do this. I can minimize the same apps and they continue to play. When the desktop was Windows 8.1, I didn't have this problem. + A Minimize to Tray button is may be placed in a window title bar. You can minimize the program to the system tray by using the new button or minimize the program to the taskbar with a standard button Minimize. + The system menu has a new item Minimize to Tray. + Support of hotkeys. Minimize Spotify to the icon tray Submitted by SpotyAtBest on 2015-03-05 09:25 PM. Before the last update, I could minimize Spotify to the icon tray. What happened to that feature? It was perfect for listening to music at work without everyone eyeing my business. Spotify Tray Wrapper. This project aims to overcome the problem the latest spotify versions introduced, which is that they have removed the tray icon and the possibility to minimize the player to tray on the Linux official client. This has forced many users to use the outdated client, which had this feature. What this program does.
To install kdocker with Fedora just run these command
or if you using Ubuntu / Debian
Now edit file /usr/share/applications/spotify.desktop and change the Exec :
Below is my full spotify.desktop file, please take note you need to change /usr/share/icons/Papirus/64x64/apps/spotify.svg with you own path to Spotify icon :
Now close instance of Spotify if already open and launch again via menu then you will notice spotify automatically minimize to taskbar. Double click on icon and kdocker will open spotify windows menu for you and minimize again if you done or click minimize.
Nice! That all, see you next round ~
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