Restore from tray fails with XFCE "show/hide desktop" panel button

[VanessaE]

Using Hexchat 2.9.6 under Xubuntu 14.04.

On the XFCE 4.10 desktop, one of the panels has a "show/hide all applications" button. If Hexchat is set to minimize to its system tray icon, clicking that XFCE show/hide button hides all apps including Hexchat, but clicking it a second restores everything else except Hexchat.

One has to click the Hexchat system tray/notification area icon after restoring the rest of the desktop, to restore the Hexchat window. The only workaround I've found is to just disable "Minimize to tray" in Hexchat's preferences.

Xchat didn't exhibit this behavior.

[Arnavion]

Not an XFCE user, but this behavior seems correct to me based on other DE's (and Windows) behavior. The show-hide all applications button tells each open window to minimize itself. The next time you click it, it tells each minimized window to restore itself. However HC isn't minimized, it's hidden, so it doesn't restore itself.

Do other applications that implement a minimize-to-tray feature get restored when you click the panel button? Is this an expectation of all applications running under XFCE?

[TingPing]

Xchat didn't exhibit this behavior.

Likely because xchat didn't expose this setting so you have it disabled.

[VanessaE]

That's a good question - I don't have any other applications running normally that even minimize to the tray at all, so I'm not sure exactly what would be considered "normal", though personally I'd expect the window to restore. Meh, no big deal. Turning off minimize-to-tray is easy enough.

[linux-modder]

That is default behaviour on xfce @VanessaE @Arnavion even chrome does this (UNLESS you throw a flag in chrome to disable this)

Works that way on *Ubuntu , Mint (a ubuntu derivative) and even my distro of choice Fedora (server version presently)

[Arnavion]

@linux-modder So you're saying that on XFCE, Unity and GNOME, if any application window is in a hidden state (not minimized), it still reappears when it is restored from the DE's "show all applications" mechanism? At the very least this is not true of KDE (and thus not of Kubuntu) and Windows.

[linux-modder]

hide to the tray should

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@linux-modder https://github.com/linux-modder So you're saying that on
XFCE, Unity and GNOME, if any application is in a hidden state (not
minimized), it still reappears when it is restored from the DE's "show
all applications" mechanism? At the very least this is not true of KDE (and
thus not of Kubuntu) and Windows.

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[mazes-80]

Restore from tray also fails for me under awesome-wm under certain conditions:
When I switch desktop a lot with hexchat window hidden, after a "random" time restore button does not work anymore.
All other things from the system-tray menu works well.
I have to close hexchat and restart
restarting wm does not help