How to Remove/Disable Opera Systray Icon

By Vygantas Lipskas | June 30, 2009 | 9 Comments

How to Remove/Disable Opera Systray Icon

If you love clean working environments, then this is a must use tip for every Opera user. Ever got annoyed by system tray icon? Want to remove it? It’s easier than you thought.

Windows
Right click on Opera shortcut > Properties
Find target fields which should look similar to this:
Target: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\opera.exe”
Replace with: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\opera.exe” /notrayicon (with quotes).

Linux
Find your launcher and edit it by adding -notrayicon in the end.
opera %u -notrayicon

Update: there is an option in opera:config now, check this post for more details.


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Vygantas Lipskas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism carrier back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.

  • http://opera.com/ Daniel Hendrycks

    How does the tray icon become activated?

    • http://www.favbrowser.com Vygantas Lipskas

      I believe it happens when you enable mail/rss feeds, thought I am not sure.

  • Hans

    Thanks for a great tip :)

  • http://www.codeindsgn.com William

    Thanks for the tip.

  • Roger

    Launcher suffix works in Opera 10.10 – Ubuntu Hardy
    but no option in opera:config

  • abdullah

    Go to tools – Mail & Chat Accounts –  right click and delete   thats should do it

  • abid

    Thnx abdullah…the previous tips were pretty lame in my opinion but ur one is da best…thnx again man…keep in touch

  • abdullah

    sorry my previous post got deleted due to wrong email….
    I had the same prob….go to tools – mails & chat accounts – right click and delete
    That should do it. Cheers

  • http://damaskdit.aq SK

    Guys, i could not understand.. I should rename opera’s launcher and write “/notrayicon” after opera? (so that there was opera/notrayicon)?? tnx!

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