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When I click X or use ALT+F4 to close Discord, the application disappears from the taskbar. But I'm still online, receiving messages and notifications in Ubuntu when new messages arrive.

So how do I actually close the application? I'd rather not have to use the terminal every time I want to close it. (Not bashing the terminal, but I feel I shouldn't have to use it for this)

Kulfy
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    Discord is an application that stays open as background application with a panel icon. Not sure how this looks in new Gnome, but under Unity you would have a Discord icon in your panel (top bar). Clicking on that should show you a menu allowing to quit it. – Byte Commander Nov 09 '17 at 09:24
  • You're right. But there's no such icon in the top bar now (in GNOME), maybe the icon is accessed somewhere else now – birgersp Nov 09 '17 at 09:26
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    As purely temporary solution. Could you use xkill Alt+F2 and type xkill then you have cursor as X and kill it before you clinck on x – NexusStar Nov 09 '17 at 09:29
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    @NexusStar A better similar workaround would probably be to run something like killall discord through Alt-F2... – Byte Commander Nov 09 '17 at 09:32
  • @pomsky Installing TopIcons Plus was a great solution, thanks! – birgersp Nov 09 '17 at 09:34
  • @NexusStart, @ByteCommander: Using xkill or killall discord with the ALT-F2 doesnt work. These commands need sudo privileges. – birgersp Nov 09 '17 at 09:36
  • Neither of these two commands do require sudo, especially for xkill it makes no sense to run that with elevated privileges - why do you think so? If it doesn't work, the reason might be that the Discord background app has a different name. – Byte Commander Nov 09 '17 at 09:53
  • Whoops, my bad! Tried both commands in the ALT-F2 dialog but nothing happened. Wrongly assumed it needed sudo privileges. Sorry. – birgersp Nov 09 '17 at 09:57
  • Are you in a default Wayland session (instead of Xorg)? If so, probably that's the reason. – pomsky Nov 09 '17 at 10:06
  • Honestly, I don't know. I start my computer, Ubuntu boots and I log in to my user. I'm oblivious to what kind of session that is – birgersp Nov 09 '17 at 11:44
  • @gromit190 You can check your current session by running echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE and to switch to Xorg: https://askubuntu.com/questions/961304/how-do-you-switch-from-wayland-back-to-xorg-in-ubuntu-17-10 but if everything else is working fine for you, no need to do the switching. – pomsky Nov 09 '17 at 12:06

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I don't know why nobody is aware this shortcut but here it is: Ctrl + q shuts Discord down.

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  • Click on the Cog icon(⚙️) in Left bottom to open User Settings.

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  • Go to Linux Settings and disable "Minimise to Tray".

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  • Click on "X" to close the app.

  • To check whether app is running or not, look for "Discord" in System Monitor, or open a terminal and run

    ps aux | grep discord

    The output will show that no Discord process running now.

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Discord stays open as a background application with a system tray icon. The "Ubuntu appindicators" extension which is responsible for showing these icons, fails to show many app icons, electron based apps especially.

You may install TopIcons Plus extension to show the icon for Discord.

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  • Too bad, I'm having the exactly same problem with Discord but this extension doesn't seem to be actively maintained anymore: https://github.com/phocean/TopIcons-plus/issues/91 – Karthic Raghupathi Nov 11 '18 at 04:39
  • @KarthicRaghupathi The extension was updated very recently (most probably by a new maintainer) and now officially supports up to GNOME v3.30: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1031/topicons/. Also there's another fork: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1497/topicons-redux/ – pomsky Nov 11 '18 at 11:55
  • Sweet. Thanks for the update. I will look into this again. – Karthic Raghupathi Nov 11 '18 at 12:46
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    TopIcons+ is no longer maintained. I would suggest the KStatusNotifierItem: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-support/ – Jamie Feb 17 '20 at 15:51
  • @Jamie Indeed, but Ubuntu comes with an extension called 'Ubuntu Appindicators' (pre-installed and activated by default), which is a fork of the one you mentioned. If the pre-installed one is not working for some specific app(s), there is a high chance that KStatusNotifierItem would also not work. – pomsky Feb 17 '20 at 17:11