In short basically Linux users are second class citizens judging by how little time and effort is allowed to be spend on Linux support. But it does not work on Flatpaks or Snaps last time I checked. You can work around that on a 'real' install by basically calling 'present' over DBus on the app window. The problem with that is that the Spotify app's MPRIS implementation SUCKS, among many other problems, it does not have a functioning raise method. Effectively just use the desktop's MPRIS widget as the tray icon. Just have an option to hide the window on close and let the Desktop's MPRIS widget raise the app when a user wants it. But I'm not sure how possible that is with the framework they use for the Spotify app, Chromium Embedded Framework from what I understand?. Use appindicator/StatusNotifierItem to create a tray icon. With that in mind there are a couple solutions (with issues).ġ. Even if you could GNOME doesn't natively support tray icons anymore and the go-to solution, GtkStatusIcon is deprecated. You can't minimize to tray because there is no tray icon to minimize too.

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