linux: add persistent 'Start Hidden (Tray Only)' setting - #759
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Adds a 'Start Hidden' toggle in the settings page that persists to QSettings (window/startHidden). When enabled, the app starts with the main window hidden regardless of whether --hide was passed, which is useful for tiling window managers where the window otherwise appears as an overlay at startup.
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Motivation
LibrePods is a tray app, but the main window pops up at startup whenever it is launched without
--hide. The built-in auto-start entry already passes--hide, but users who start the app some other way — e.g.spawn-at-startupin tiling compositors like niri/Hyprland/sway, or launching from an app launcher — get the 400x300 window shown on every boot. On tiling window managers this appears as an unwanted overlay window.Changes
Adds a persistent Start Hidden (Tray Only) toggle to the settings page:
window/startHiddenQSettings key, exposed to QML asairPodsTrayApp.startHidden--hide || startHidden, so the persisted preference works no matter how the app is launchedTested
Built on Arch Linux (Qt 6, cmake) and verified under niri: with the setting enabled and no
--hideflag, the process starts and the tray icon works while no window is created (niri msg windowsshows nothing). The window still opens normally from the tray icon.No behavior change for users who don't enable the toggle (default
false).Note: created with Qwen3.8max as I was annoyed in my niri setup that librepods has this big banner that may look nice on non-tiling managers, but gets in the way of tiling managers, at least on niri.