Disable system tray icon about lotion HOT 5 CLOSED

Is there a reason you would want to disable the system tray?

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Thanks for the follow-up, @puneetsl. Honestly I would mostly prefer the option to have a flat/monochrome icon to match others. I personally don't use tray icons and prefer using the dock to manage running applications but I understand that Lotion will continue running in the background even if the app window is closed. I'd actually like the option to disable this background running but that's a different issue.

How the Lotion icon looks alongside Steam, etc:

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Same. I like having the tray icon to show that it's running in the background and for quick access. I'd prefer a mono-chrome option. Also, I've noticed that if the tray icon is open and I open from the dock, a second tray icon will appear and a second app instance is opened.

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I think relatedly, I found this while wondering why Lotion was still running several processing after quitting the GUI. Then I realized that the system tray icon isn't showing in i3 for me. So I currently have no way of exiting Lotion after killing the window but to send a signal to whichever I think the parent process is.

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It's very difficult to add support for different WMs, one way to solve this is if you can create a flat version of the icon and add it the respective theme folder you are using. I have tested this in GNOME, not sure how to make it work in i3

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