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I would like a wine app to run in the background without appearing in unity's panel.

The app, by the way, is "air video server", in case that matters.

Is there any way (command line is fine) to start the application with no tray icon? (other than blacklisting all wine apps from the notification area , if possible)

Mark Russell
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It's basically the same as How do I whitelist Truecrypt to show in the indicator area? except remove Wine and don't add TrueCrypt.

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Jeremy Bicha
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When you invoke this particular wine application try using a differently-named symlink to wine. This will change the name of the process in the process table.

For example, if you sudo ln -s /usr/bin/skype /usr/local/bin/notskype and then invoke skype with skype the name of the process that launches won't match the whitelist and you won't see the tray icon. While launching with skype will still place the icon as before.

EDIT: The concept works with apps like skype. But this does NOT work with Wine. I'm leaving it up for now in case someone can adapt it to wine.

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