Birdtray Alternatives

birdtray reviews and mentions

• Thunderbird 115.4.0
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Oct 2023

  > Inability to minimize to tray on Linux

  Birdtray [1] works perfectly for this. I think the only thing you have to is create a .desktop file that opens birdtray that opens Thunderbird automatically.

  > Inability to easily edit the from address

  There is a feature for this for quite a while. In the write message window, just click the down arrow next to 'From' and either choose a pre-configured identity [2] or click "Customize From Address" which allows you to freely edit the from address.

  > And TB still doesn't "remember" which -from- addresses are used by which -to- address.

  Not sure what you mean, but there is a 'Reply from this identity when delivery headers match' config in account settings. I have never used it, but it allows you to automatically choose an identity when you are replying to a email from a particular address/domain.

  [1] https://github.com/gyunaev/birdtray

  [2] You can customize as many identities as possible for each server.

• Calendar App with system tray support
  3 projects | /r/archlinux | 4 Apr 2023

  You could try birdtray and have a combined calendar and email tray icon. You would kill two birds with one stone if you know what I mean :)

• Is there any way to make Thunderbird receive mail without it being open?
  1 project | /r/Thunderbird | 19 Feb 2023

  Take a look at Birdtray

• Is possible to show the new messages counter on Thunderbird taskbar icon?
  1 project | /r/kde | 7 Dec 2022

  There is standalone Qt app https://github.com/gyunaev/birdtray that achieves that by parsing data from Thunderberd's profile.

• Thunderbird 102 Released: A Serious Upgrade To Your Communication
  1 project | /r/linux | 29 Jun 2022

  Thanks for the suggestion, but since the feature landed for Windows for a while now, I would prefer a native solution. Add-ons tend to break after TB major releases and Birdtray has also its problems like Wayland support.

• Any way to have Thunderbird's 'Always On Top' setting as permanent?
  1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 3 Jun 2022

  I recently came across Birdtray. It shows unread emails and I can click on it to hide/show Thunderbird. However, if I click again to show the Thunderbird window, I must check the 'Always On Top' box on the Thunderbird window again. If I minimise Thunderbird from it's own minimise window setting - it retains the 'Always On Top' setting - but then takes up space in the panel.

• [Discussion] What are some old C++ open source projects you wish were still active?
  10 projects | /r/cpp | 5 Apr 2022
• How stable is wayland in 21.04
  1 project | /r/pop_os | 7 Dec 2021
• Please add "minimize to tray feature" to Thunderbird || I am using Linux
  1 project | /r/Thunderbird | 20 Sep 2021

  Birdtray* did the trick for me! It's quite useful and the difference from a proper tray integration is almost inoticeable! I have tried kdocker but didn't like it.

• If you use thunderbird, and wish you could get it to minimize to the tray, YSK about birdtray
  1 project | /r/Thunderbird | 3 Sep 2021

  releases: https://github.com/gyunaev/birdtray/releases/tag/v1.9.0

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