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How minimize Signal messenger to system tray (top-right corner)?

Jiří Doubravský solution worked for Gnome on Ubuntu 19.04. Add --use-tray-icon option inside the Exec line in /usr/share/applications/signal-desktop.desktop from: Exec=/opt/Signal/signal-desktop --...
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Bluetooth Headphones switches from (A2DP sink) to (HSP/HFP) when starting VoIP application

Been having this problem for months. Finally got around to googling for a solution and I found this answer on the arch linux forums (from user v1del): From pulseaudio 10.0 release notes: Pulse ...
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How minimize Signal messenger to system tray (top-right corner)?

You can use optional arguments to start the application --start-in-tray and/or --use-tray-icon Startup launcher: Add both arguments. Desktop launcher icon: Add just the second one argument. In ...
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How to call a number from command-line with Skype?

Very simple: $> skype --help Skype 4.3.0.37 Usage: skype [options] Options: --dbpath=<path> Specify an alternative path to store Skype data files. Default: ~...
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how to repopulate /etc/asterisk/ after purging asterisk?

Files in /etc/asterisk looks like they are generally shipped by the asterisk-config package. So it is this package you need to purge. Your autoremove did remove this package, but did not purge it. ...
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How do I install sipclients or sip simple?

As explained here on Github: SIP SIMPLE client SDK installation on Ubuntu Copyright (c) 2008-2015 AG Projects http://ag-projects.com Home page: http://sipsimpleclient.org This ...
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Bluetooth Headphones switches from (A2DP sink) to (HSP/HFP) when starting VoIP application

For ubuntu 21.10 I found that /var/lib/gdm3/.config/pulse/default.pa unloads the module and .config/pulse/default.pa reloads it per user. The following lines must therefore be changed in ~/.config/...
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What are the SIP connection parameters for an ekiga.net account?

If you are using the ekiga user agent (UA) to register yourself with the ekiga.net sip server, the connection parameters are: registrar: ekiga.net username: <your username> (the bit before the &...
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What's a good VOIP application for 16.04?

Skype changed to SkypeForLinux and now has some enhanced UI that is supposed to be better for the users. You might want to check that one out and also whether there are any problems in 32 bit mode. ...
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How do I resolve "No such Gstreamer factory: ffdec_mpeg4" warning?

I just installed this packages and none of this problems appear, for more info try reading this article. sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras vlc smplayer this programs uses tons of codecs, ...
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How minimize Signal messenger to system tray (top-right corner)?

I propose building onto robmsmt's one-liner to account for different launch options I've encountered in the wild (without --no-sandbox, with lowercase %u, and 'empty' option --), probably depending on ...
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How minimize Signal messenger to system tray (top-right corner)?

A one-liner. Personally I have this saved on my desktop since Signal updates seem to to remove it. sudo sed -i 's/signal-desktop --no-sandbox %U/signal-desktop --use-tray-icon --no-sandbox %U/g' /usr/...
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Ubuntu seizes up after using VOIP

You may not have a swap partition; swap files are now the default for Ubuntu installs and have been since version 17.10. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq provides good explanations of the ...
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How minimize Signal messenger to system tray (top-right corner)?

To do this for the flatpak version of Signal use flatseal. With flatseal you can easily edit this flatpaks environment variables: SIGNAL_START_IN_TRAY SIGNAL_USE_TRAY_ICON Set them to 1 to ...
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Clicking to Dial Phone Numbers on Websites Using Dialpad.com

You can use a Dialpad extension for Chrome to enable click to call. If you need to, you can download Google Chrome for Ubuntu from Google and then install the deb file manually. If forefox downloads ...
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How to install Jitsi from the unstable repo?

The development of Jitsi Desktop (formerly SIP Communicator) ceased in the year 2017. It remained as hobby project (source) and to rip out code for other projects like Jitsi Meet. Therefore, if you ...
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How minimize Signal messenger to system tray (top-right corner)?

Instead of editing a root owned file that gets overwritten when the package manager installs a new version of signal-desktop, I recommend to create a custom .desktop file in your home folder, and add ...
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How To Install Zoiper

The file may download to the /tmp/zarcell0 folder, or Downloads. From your download (let's say in Firefox) click on the whole line and choose 'Open Containing Folder'. There, right click on the ...
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