Can Cadence start in the system tray (window hidden)?

[timlepes]

I have Cadence set to start up at login via KDE/Plasma5 System Settings | Startup and Shutdown | Autostart. However, it pops up the GUI window every time it starts. Not a huge problem, but certainly annoying. I would like it to start up "hidden" or mimimized to the system tray icon. I cannot find any command-line options... no man page, no info page, nothing I have found on-line. Is there such an option to pass at startup? Or perhaps a setting I just haven't been able to find via the GUI, or even an environment variable or config file option somehwere to be set? I tried `cadence --help` at the command line and merely got complaints about it already running. Trying again it seems to ignore any command line option (tried --help and --version) and merely starts up the program.

If there is no such option at this time, where would the proper place be to make a feature request?

Thanks!

[timlepes]

Seems I got an answer on the IRC channel... 'cadence --minimized' works like a charm! Shame it does not seem to be documented anywhere...

Perhaps I can suggest that 'cadence --help' be implimented, in order to make this a little more discoverable?

Thanks, especially 'nocomply' on IRC who had the ready answer!

[wolftune]

Great, and that's good to know! I think it makes sense to post your --help suggestion as an issue at https://github.com/falkTX/Cadence/issues

Cheers

[midish]

Sorry to restart this old thread but I don't understand how to do it. If I check 'Auto-start JACK or LADISH at login' it'll do just that perfectly but not minimized.
So by reading this I thought I would uncheck that and make an entry in System Preferences instead.
'cadence --minimized' works when I tell it to do it in terminal or konsole but it won't autostart jack. It would just start cadence.

edit: I found it. I used this command instead

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cadence-session-start --start

That would autostart HIDDEN cadence and jack session at login. I guess if the icon tray is wanted you could just make another entry with the 'cadence --minimized' command.