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Some applications, don't actually exit when closing them. Instead, they keep on running the background. Applications known for this are
When in this state, trying to restore them by clicking the (non-running) icon on the taskbar often takes multiple seconds, but clicking on the small system tray icon restores them almost instantly. Why is this?
The system tray
23restore them by clicking the (non-running) icon Isn't this simply 'starting' not 'restoring' ? – TaW – 2018-04-27T08:19:43.820
2I'm not really sure why applications do this when they could just minimize? – pjc50 – 2018-04-27T09:31:00.590
9@pjc50 they are minimised - only they are also removed from the taskbar. The idea is that applet style programs - things that you interact with infrequently, but need to be run as a program and not a service are tidied away there. It means that they don't end up cluttering up that taskbar. – Baldrickk – 2018-04-27T11:03:08.367
@pjc50 I currently have 14 programs in my system tray. I interact with most of them very rarely, but want to have them running and doing their job in background. At the same time I have 5 running programs that I actually work with. Finding them among other running programs in taskbar would be cumbersome. – gronostaj – 2018-04-29T08:10:11.887
What exactly do you mean by "trying to restore them by clicking the (non-running) icon on the taskbar". If the program is running then "restoring" its window from taskbar or notification tray should take same amount of time. If you have "pinned" an application on taskbar then clicking on its "not-running" icon is same as launching the application, not restoring its window. – Salman A – 2018-04-29T09:18:27.707