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I have a question for you all.
It's possible to "hide" thunderbird from the unity application bar when thunderbird is running?
For my is unhelpfull see thunderbird on the "mail" tray ( near shutdown button) and the unity "running" application.
If i close thunder with the close button, it don't notify me new email.
You can use the plug in called "Minimize to Tray" in Thunderbird to achieve that. Once installed Press F9 to minimize Thunderbird to the system tray. You will keep on receiving the Emails when it is minimized.
This works perfectly fine when you click the mail icon in the system tray.
I hope this will be helpful.
The MinimizeToTray revived add-on for Thunderbird can be configured to hide the Thunderbird icon in the Unity launcher when the close button is pressed, while leaving Thunderbird running and allowing it to be accessed through the mail indicator.
It may be installed by going to Tools --> Add-ons in Thunderbird and searching for MinimizeToTray. Once it is installed, the add-on's preferences can be configured to hide Thunderbird rather than closing or minimizing it when the close or minimize button is pressed.
Configure the add-on as follows:
Once this is done, clicking the close or minimize button in Thunderbird should hide it. It may be recalled using the Mail entry in the Messaging Menu. To quit the program (rather than just hiding it), use File --> Quit in Thunderbird.
I have a solution that may help you, but it would require you using Compiz.
Setting it up
Copy the following line
class=Thunderbird
Paste the code into the box titled 'Skip Taskbar'. This lets you have Thunderbird active while hiding it from your Launcher.
There are other options within this plugin that may be of use to you. E.g, there is the option to remove the close button from the window of any particular application, in this case if you use that code, it will be Thunderbird. Though I tried this and it worked a bit odd with a bug or two with that feature, so give it a try and use it for a bit to see if that one works for you.
The MinimizeToTray revived add-on for Thunderbird can be configured to hide the Thunderbird icon in the Unity launcher when the close button is pressed, while leaving Thunderbird running and allowing it to be accessed through the mail indicator.
It may be installed by going to Tools --> Add-ons in Thunderbird and searching for MinimizeToTray. Once it is installed, the add-on's preferences can be configured to hide Thunderbird rather than closing or minimizing it when the close or minimize button is pressed.
Install an Addon Called FireTray , Visit the Addon Preferences/Options/Settings and adjust accordingly. When You See that page, you'll know what to Do
No, Thunderbird has no support to hide itself like that. Why don't you just move it to the bottom of your launcher if you want it out of the way and don't want to use the keyboard shortcuts for it?
What you need is Popper. Popper reads the new emails from POP3 and IMAP email servers and notifies about the number, subject, sender and time of new emails in the indicator applet and via a notification bubble.
How to install?
Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get install popper
How to configure?
Press the super key (windows key) and search for popper.
Open the Popper configurator and select "start popper automatically after login".
Now open the Thunderbird, and goto account settings through edit menu and select server settings under your Email Address and copy the server name and port number.
Go back to Popper configurator and select the "Account" tab
select "add" to add new email address, Fill the fields like this:
Name: Any name of your choice Server: Paste the server address hare that you just copied from Thunderbird User: Your real email address Password: Password of your email address Port: Paste the port number hare that you copied from Thunderbird and select 'SSL only'
Select IMAP if your email provider sports IMAP (Gmail, Yahoo and GMX)
Set the check frequency (how often should popper check for new mails).
Now open the "Test" tab of Popper configurator:
and hit "Test Email Connection", You should see a success message "OK Authentication Complete" if not than check your email address and other settings again.
Hit "Save and Exit". That's it.
maybe this will help you.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1529056
Quote (and edit the way I did this):
Got this to work for me in 12.04
Install wmctrl
Make a script called start_thunderbird_hidden.sh in example /home (you can of course change the name of the script and where you put it)
$ chmod +x ~/home/start_thunderbird_hidden.sh
Make the contents of the script as follows:
#!/bin/bash
thunderbird &
while [[ $(wmctrl -l | grep Thunderbird) == "" ]]; do sleep 0.1; done
wmctrl -r Thunderbird -b add,hidden
wmctrl -k on
Had to include the full path rather than using ~/ to get it to work 5. Go to Startup Applications -> add -> Command: /home//start_thunderbird_hidden.sh
Now thunderbird start on login and hide inside the launcher.
To completely remove the App indicator on the left follow the link. (not tested by me)
Here is the way that best suits me. I am sure it is the same to most others.
Making sure that thunderbird is automatically started on logon, plus it doesn't entirely quit on closing the window (stupid default behaviour!) involves just three steps:
Thunderbird -> Tools -> addons -> firetray -> preferences -> under tab "windows")thunderbird or /usr/bin/thunderbird)you should check out popper, it autostarts at login,it will notify you when you have any new mail, even set custom sounds to notify you (or none) its great, it says when you have mail, then you open thunderbird to read 'em
check it out here
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/09/email-notification-in-ubuntu-popper/
