Spotify Minimize To Tray

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 This has forced many users to use the outdated client, which had this feature.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. The tray is the area of your taskbar on the right side, just left of the clock. If there is no Spotify icon there, click the little triangle and it will show up in the full list, if Spotify is currently running. If you right click on the tray Icon, there should be an option that says 'Hide from taskbar when closed'. Quickly go to spotify application window. Double-click the minipie window to open spotify window. Fully featured tray icon is back! Control the playback from tray. Click the tray icon to open minipie window. Double-click the icon to hide the window (or select 'minimize to tray' from context menu). Advanced scenarios.

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.

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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 :

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 Axis bank caller tune mobile. 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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