How to get rid of Opera tray icon

[Kemistry]

I've always simply used opera -notrayicon which works beautifully.

[zapjb]

Still not solved BUT I figured out what's going on. When I start Opera from desk icon this tip works. But I start Opera from the taskbar & this tip doesn't work. Weird. Anyone figure that out?

[Old-Polack]

Still not solved BUT I figured out what's going on. When I start Opera from desk icon this tip works. But I start Opera from the taskbar & this tip doesn't work. Weird. Anyone figure that out?

First you need to get your nomenclature straight. You have a kicker panel at the bottom of your desktop. On it you have an applet named Taskbar, and another named System Tray. All three have icons on them, so you need to specify accurately which you are referring to, as the icons do different things in different places.

Assuming for the moment you are actually referring to the icon on the kicker panel, it will have a different command from the one on your desktop, if you changed the one on the desktop, so there's nothing weird about it. Delete/remove the one on the kicker panel, then drag the one from the desktop onto the panel and choose Copy Here. Now both will contain the same command, so behave the same.

[barryc]

Check the Opera listing in your Kmenu too.  It may need editing to match the other two.
Just click on the PC menu button and go to Internet > Web Browsers > Opera.  Right click on Opera and
click on Edit Item.  Change the command to 'opera %u -notrayicon' and then check the save icon at the
top of the KDE editor screen (just below the word File on the menu bar).

[zapjb]

Still not solved BUT I figured out what's going on. When I start Opera from desk icon this tip works. But I start Opera from the taskbar & this tip doesn't work. Weird. Anyone figure that out?

First you need to get your nomenclature straight. You have a kicker panel at the bottom of your desktop. On it you have an applet named Taskbar, and another named System Tray. All three have icons on them, so you need to specify accurately which you are referring to, as the icons do different things in different places.

Assuming for the moment you are actually referring to the icon on the kicker panel, it will have a different command from the one on your desktop, if you changed the one on the desktop, so there's nothing weird about it. Delete/remove the one on the kicker panel, then drag the one from the desktop onto the panel and choose Copy Here. Now both will contain the same command, so behave the same.

Thanks. This worked.

[Bald Brick]

First you need to get your nomenclature straight. You have a kicker panel at the bottom of your desktop. On it you have an applet named Taskbar, and another named System Tray. All three have icons on them, so you need to specify accurately which you are referring to, as the icons do different things in different places.

And to simplify things even more: the icons in the tray will usually be smaller than the icons placed directly on the panel. The icons on the taskbar will be smaller than both.

[zapjb]

My problem is solved. But I still don't get the difference between taskbar & system tray.

[Old-Polack]

My problem is solved. But I still don't get the difference between taskbar & system tray.

The Taskbar shows all the windows of running tasks, while the system tray offers icons that allow quick modifications to the running apps, including allowing to close the window, without ending the task. Not all applications have System Tray Icons.

[Bald Brick]

My problem is solved. But I still don't get the difference between taskbar & system tray.

The taskbar and the system tray are both applets that take up some space on the panel.

The taskbar shows you the names and icons of running programs and by clicking the names or the icons of the programs you can minimize them, restore them or bring them to the foreground.

The system tray shows you tiny icons of programs that you may want to keep running all the time without taking up space on the taskbar, e.g. Kmix, Kontact, Kwallet and Update Notifier. Restoring them by clicking the tray icon is much faster than restarting them.

[Bald Brick]

O-P,

It seems you won this time. I'm getting old.

[Old-Polack]

O-P,

It seems you won this time. I'm getting old.

But you gave more details this time.