Signal Messenger with a Tray icon?

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Hi,

Unfortunately, on Tumbleweed, I can only find Signal Messenger via Flatpak. I am using it, but it’s unfortunate because Signal Beta version which on Debian and Arch is a separate application has a tray icon and I really need a tray icon for the way I use my system. The flatpak version doesn’t offer this because it’s the official build instead of the beta.

Is there any solution here, someone can help me figure out?

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Reading the flathub repository documentation for Signal ( GitHub - flathub/org.signal.Signal ) I have seen that you can have a tray icon by launching signal with the SIGNAL_USE_TRAY_ICON=1 environnement variable set.

I have tried and it work, it make a tray icon for the app appear and clicking on it show/hide the app window.

flatpak run --env=SIGNAL_USE_TRAY_ICON=1 org.signal.Signal
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You just made my day, bud. Thanks for that.