How do I start Spotify minimized in Ubuntu (Mint 19)?

[chizdippler]

Plan Premium

Country USA

Device Linux PC

Operating System Mint 19

My Question or Issue

I had spotify set to start minimized in Mint 18 but after the upgrade to 19 it shows up right in the middle of my media player program. The system is a keyboardless media player so attaching a keyboard to minimize one app is super annoying. 

How do I set spotify up to start minimized? There is no setting for this. In fact the place that setting would be is an empty group. 

[blubbo]

xdotool is your best friend when all other friends have left you ... and by friends I mean settings ... and by settings I mean, no ... err, ok.

The last answer to this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/4876/can-i-minimize-a-window-from-the-command-line should do the trick.

Something like:

spotify &
xdotool search --sync --onlyvisible --class "spotify" windowminimize

Though you obviously need to change the class/classname to whatever Spotify uses. Xdotool search should be able to help with this as well.