Question

I’m trying to make a SWT-app that I’m building to minimize itself to it’s tray-icon (i.e. a TrayItem in SWT). More specifically I want to achieve the following:

• Both pressing close and minimize will minimize the app.
• The app is not shown in the task-bar while it’s minimized.

Answer 1

You can intercept window events in SWT quite easily.

Hiding apps from taskbar is something I haven’t tried and I’d assume it requires calling some native function. I’ve found an example with taskbar which may be a starting point here .