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.
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.
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