Title: Put Signal in your systray on Linux
Date: 2021-01-28 19:15

[Signal](https://signal.org/) is one of my favourite way to communicate
remotely with friends: its [cryptography](https://signal.org/docs/) is top-notch,
its [privacy policy](https://signal.org/legal/) is one of the best,
its [applications](https://signal.org/download/) useable by all, … there
is even a desktop client which feels clunky but at least it's something.

It's possible [since 2017]( https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/commit/cd50fe3123990840e65963a468a8fc168ac970a2 )
to minimize Signal Desktop to the systray, but this isn't exposed in the options
because the feature is [still in beta]( https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/3063#issuecomment-467165690 ):
the trick is simply to pass `--use-tray-icon` to the binary. And while you're at it, you can 
[remove the `--no-sandbox`]( https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/pull/4381#issuecomment-650465633 )
from your desktop shortcut.