Re: starting kmail in the system tray

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 21:30:25 +0100, Chris wrote:
> I start kmail and akregator from .kde/Autostart, for Kmail I use:
> 
> kstart --iconify kmail &
> 
> which starts Kmail as an icon, actually I'd like to start it minimized to 
> the system tray.  The 
> 
> --tosystray
> 
> option of kstart does not produce the desired result.
> 
> Is there any way to do this?

If you have the systray icon activated in the KMail configuration
(Settings > Configure KMail... > Appearance > System Tray) then you can
run

dcop kmail kmail-mainwindow#1 setHidden on

to hide the window after you start kmail. If the system tray icon is not
activated then you need

dcop kmail kmail-mainwindow#1 setHidden off

to make the window appear again.

I think this is one way to achieve what you want, but I am not sure if
it is the simplest/best one.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian