Js-ctypes rewrite of the binary XPCOM version of Firetray.
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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
- StatusNotifierItem support (can be disabled by
with_appindicator
hidden pref) - customizable tray icons
- popup menu (show/hide individual windows, open new windows, quit)
- command-line
-firetrayShowHide
option (useful for window manager's keyboard shortcuts) - command-line
-firetrayPresent
option (activates windows) - middle click on the tray icon activates last registered window
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for mail applications:
- display unread message count in tray icon
- display biff in tray icon for new messages
- include/exclude mail accounts to/from messages count
- include/exclude folders types to/from messages count
- count in sub-folders recursively
- handle Exquilla accounts
- restrict message count to favorite folders
- trigger external program on message count change
- show icon only when new mail (mutually exclusive with show icon only when hidden to tray)
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for applications embedding chat (currently only Thunderbird)
- display additional system tray status icon
- Under Linux:
- GTK+ 2.20+ required.
- libappindicator3 can be used for StatusNotifierItem (KDE, Unity).
- Under Windows, few features are not yet implemented.
- Firetray temporarily unsets:
- the
tabs.warnOnClose
built-in preference, which otherwise disrupts the handeling of the close event mail.biff.show_tray_icon
for mail applications
- the
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if you're looking for other mozilla-desktop integration:
- Paul Neulinger's Gnome-shell-Thunderbird integration
- Mike Conley's Unity-Thunderbird integration
- discontinued Mozilla New Mail Icon (Biff)
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Alltray launches any applications into tray
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windows aren't restored with the same z-order, but there is no means to correct that under Linux
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notifications for excluded mail account servers are not disabled. Newmailalerts are hard-coded 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 -
child windows (compose message, preferences, ...) are not handled by Firetray. For ex., they are not hidden along with there top-level window.
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because of
getNumNewMessages()
's strange behaviour, 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 [https://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:FAQs:_Automatically_Download_Messages](Automatically download new messages) to see new message. See this discussion.
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some features do not work well under Unity/Compiz.
- Some code borrowed from Mike Conley.
- Some code borrowed from Nils Maier.
- kind support from Neil Deaking, Bobby Holley
- default icons borrowed from Mozilla, Pidgin, Tango Desktop Project