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  • tur1ng
    • Edited

    Yes please! Discord is the only electron app I know that doesn't allow starting minimized.

    2
  • Nicholas

    Please please please do this!! Would make my life so much easier not having to be interrupted every time I turn on my PC

    2
  • Nicholas

    I open discord with a command `discord` anyway so changing that to `discord -m` would be fantastic

    0
  • bringonblink

    Pretty basic feature to be missing... Come on get it done lads

    2
  • Kalanur

    Had to remove Discord from autostart because this feature is still missing. The Windows version supports it, please support it for Linux too.

    0
  • Partack

    Did a quick google search and i found out Discord does support starting minimised.

    https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360048037971-Option-for-Discord-to-start-minimized-on-Linux

    quoting user "blitzcrankBot" :

       You can use the command line argument --start-minimized

    I just tested it, it works perfectly on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

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  • Nicholas

    You sir are a legend! My life has been saved

    1
  • Kalanur

    I can confirm it's working. Thank you Partack and blitzcrankBot. The solution was in a newer duplicate thread:

    https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360048037971-Option-for-Discord-to-start-minimized-on-Linux

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  • travipies

    There is always a way, at all times - always.

    With wmctrl and xdotool you can make any application, script or whatever, startup minimzed or not.

    sudo apt install wmctrl xdotool python3

    Use this snippet and create a python3 add it's path to your startup preferences.

    #!/usr/bin/env python3
import subprocess
import sys
import time

subprocess.Popen(["/bin/bash", "-c", sys.argv[1]])
windowname = sys.argv[2]

def read_wlist(w_name):
    try:
        l = subprocess.check_output(["wmctrl", "-l"]).decode("utf-8").splitlines()
        return [w.split()[0] for w in l if w_name in w][0]
    except (IndexError, subprocess.CalledProcessError):
        return None

t = 0
while t < 30:
    window = read_wlist(windowname)
    time.sleep(0.1)
    if window != None:
        subprocess.Popen(["xdotool", "windowminimize", window])
        break
    time.sleep(1)
    t += 1
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