Not minimising to tray

by **terrypin** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:41 am

kiwichick wrote:Hi terrypin, It may not be exactly what you want but this is what I do: Minimize to tray is available as an MM toolbar button. Right-click the toolbar and select 'Configure'. In 'Available Actions' under 'View' you will find Minimize to tray /Maximize. Drag it to one of the Toolbars on the left (or create a new one). Click OK. The button is now on the toolbar.

Thanks kiwichick. Do you find that any more convenient than just using the standard Windows Minimise icon '-' top right?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

by **Lowlander** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 5:35 pm

Tools > Options > Hotkeys and you can make any of them global: http://www.mediamonkey.com/sw/webhelp/f ... rtcuts.htm

by **terrypin** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 4:45 pm

Thanks Lowlander. Somehow that setting had become unchecked.

It's good to have that click-to-pause/click-to play facility back (and the Next/Previous gestures I'd never used before). But I'd prefer KB shortcuts. Much faster than locating and moving and clicking the mouse. Am I right that there are no such globally accessible keys? To use Ctrl+P for example, I have to first get MM in focus, yes?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

by **Lowlander** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:14 am

Tools > Options > General and enable Enable mouse gestures for tray icon.

by **terrypin** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 10:59 am

Thanks, understood.

Re "The tray icon has mouse gestures (click to play/pause, click+drag forward/backward to go next/previous track, mouseover for currently playing track info, etc.)"
None of that works for me! With MM minimised and in my tray as an MM icon, clicking it once does nothing. I do recall that it used to do that. Any suggestions as to what setting I might have accidentally changed? I've never used the mouse gesture facility, so look forward to getting that working too.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

by **nohitter151** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:30 am

terrypin wrote:After re-studying this thread I'm getting close to answering the queries I raised in my similar recent thread. But I'd appreciate confirmation on a few points please:

1. I don't see the 'MicroPlayer'. I assume it's because of the bug raised by Lowlander, Close to Tray bug: http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=6764 although I don't have Close to Tray checked, as you see:

I already answered that one post up. You are running MM unskinned, which does not display any Microplayer. You must have skins enabled to see the MicroPlayer.

2. Does MM not have a simple Minimize To Tray option? (I'd have thought that a popular requirement.)

It does not.

3. Is there any advantage in using the Windows Minimize To Tray? My initial thoughts are: upside, single click to restore; downside: not an MM icon.

It's all personal preference

4. Why might I also want to set Always show tray icon?

Personal preference. The tray icon has mouse gestures (click to play/pause, click+drag forward/backward to go next/previous track, mouseover for currently playing track info, etc.)

by **kiwichick** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:59 am

Hi terrypin, It may not be exactly what you want but this is what I do: Minimize to tray is available as an MM toolbar button. Right-click the toolbar and select 'Configure'. In 'Available Actions' under 'View' you will find Minimize to tray /Maximize. Drag it to one of the Toolbars on the left (or create a new one). Click OK. The button is now on the toolbar.

by **terrypin** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 1:43 am

After re-studying this thread I'm getting close to answering the queries I raised in my similar recent thread. But I'd appreciate confirmation on a few points please:

1. I don't see the 'MicroPlayer'. I assume it's because of the bug raised by Lowlander, Close to Tray bug: http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=6764 although I don't have Close to Tray checked, as you see:

The other two work as expected. The middle one doesn't. Instead MM miniimses to the XP tray. That's actually what I want it to do! But I'm still not 100% sure whether I'm getting that as a result of a bug or something I'm doing wrong?

2. Does MM not have a simple Minimize To Tray option? (I'd have thought that a popular requirement.)

3. Is there any advantage in using the Windows Minimize To Tray? My initial thoughts are: upside, single click to restore; downside: not an MM icon.

4. Why might I also want to set Always show tray icon?

I'd also be interested to know what other users do. Which of those 3 settings do others use, and why?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

by **nohitter151** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:54 pm

FYI in your case you cannot see the microplayer because you are using unskinned MM. The microplayer only appears when skins are enabled.

by **Lowlander** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:04 pm

Close to Tray bug: http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=6764

by **Lowlander** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 1:17 pm

Yeah, many people had asked that MediaMonkey would remember the last state and startup in that state.

by **nohitter151** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 8:28 am

terrypin wrote:That does it, nohitter151, thanks!

However it still leaves what I think is a minor design flaw. If you have it minimised in the tray and then decide you want to close it altogether (to remove its considerable resources), the natural way to do that is to r-click and choose Exit. But when you then restart, MM opens as a tray icon, requiring a d-click.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

That's as designed. MM loads back up as it was closed.

by **terrypin** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 3:06 am

That does it, nohitter151, thanks!

However it still leaves what I think is a minor design flaw. If you have it minimised in the tray and then decide you want to close it altogether (to remove its considerable resources), the natural way to do that is to r-click and choose Exit. But when you then restart, MM opens as a tray icon, requiring a d-click.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

by **nohitter151** » Sat Nov 27, 2010 2:38 pm

If you want to minimize to tray, just do the following:

1. Choose "Minimize to microplayer" in the MM options
2. Uncheck "MediaMonkey player" at right-click taskbar > Toolbars > MediaMonkey player

Now the behavior is minimize to tray.

by **rovingcowboy** » Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:57 pm

i re read your post and you say micro player did show up at first for a second?

that seems like you might need a java update on your system check with sunmicro's site and see if they have a new
update of java for your system.

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