[Closed} Backgrounding Applications

[rodgoslin]

Up to my latest installation of Mga5, with the KDE desktop Environment, certain applications, when closed, would still run in the background, with an icon in the system tray, to open them up fully, once more. Examples of these were hplip, Kleopatra, Clementine, Amarok and Transmission. Very handy, since the results of the application would still be working, without cluttering the taskmanager. However, since the latest install, Transmission no longer goes to the background, but when closed, really closes. How do I get back the automatic backgrounding of this application, and indeed, any application. I've searched the 'net, but cannot find the relevant information. Unfortunately any google search with "background" and "KDE" in it swamps the whole thing with info about wallpaper.

[doktor5000]

What transmission frontend did you install, transmission-qt or transmission-gtk? And what did you configure in transmission settings?
Works fine here, transmission-qt shows a trayicon.

[rodgoslin]

This is Transmission qt. As for settings (preferences), the only change from default settings is in changing the default speeds upload and download.

[doktor5000]

What settings are configured in settings => desktop ? Is the second checkbox for "Show Transmission icon in the notification area" enabled?

And please show the output when you run it from a terminal as regular user:

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transmission-qt

[rodgoslin]

It was not enabled. Now it is and the problem is solved. I've been using Transmission for some years now, and this has never occurred before, which puzzles me. I've noticed that some things background automatically, as Amarok, Clementine, hplip,and the networking icon, whilst others, like Filezilla do not, even though to do so would be a help. Is there some way of generally backgrounding applications? A quick look at Kleopatra does not appear to have an option to enable or disable an entry in the notification area. So can this be done generally?
Thank you for your help

[doktor5000]

Is there some way of generally backgrounding applications?

Yes, make sure that the program in question has support for closing/minimzing to systray and make sure that the respective setting is enabled.

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks