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I just moved from windows a few days ago and I find it very uncomfortable to have all the icons in the system tray showing all the time. How can I hide them into a drop down (kind of like in windows) so I only have a few icons visible all the time, but still have access to all the others just a click away?

Shashwat Black
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  • Did you know you could autohide the system tray(its called the launcher in ubuntu)? If not, go to System settings -> Appearance and then click on "On" besides the "Auto-hide the Launcher". – jobin May 29 '14 at 14:39
  • I didn't mean the launcher. I meant the bar at the top. Title bar? Menu bar? System tray? it acts like all of it. – Shashwat Black May 29 '14 at 14:42
  • So do you want to hide the system indicator icons you mean? Are those that annoying? :/ – jobin May 29 '14 at 14:44
  • I have skype, and dropbox, and lightshot and xdman and i'm sure i'll have more as i spend more time in ubuntu. I just want the important ones there, volume, time, wifi, and net speed indicator. I still want the others just not right there all the time. – Shashwat Black May 29 '14 at 14:46
  • Just fyi, it's called the "panel" :) See this question for more information (note that it will tell you the bar is called the "menu bar". That might be official, most people call it the "panel") – Seth May 30 '14 at 03:44
  • so there isn't any way? :( – Shashwat Black May 31 '14 at 04:31
  • @Jobin I agree with the Shashwat Black - after installing a fair bit of stuff in Ubuntu, the panel gets pretty full... I'm gonna have to start looking into this myself soon (it already takes-up 1/4 of the menu bar!). – Gregory Opera Jun 04 '14 at 12:39
  • still no way to do this? :o – Vitas Feb 13 '17 at 08:00

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I don't believe there is any way to hide indicator icons across the board - similar to what Microsoft Windows does.

Some applications which also have an associated indicator may have an option to show/hide their specific icon - such as Transmission or Remmina.

Bernmeister
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