Hiding a running application?

[ezzy25]

How do I hide a running application so that it does not appear in the launcher or appear when I alt-tab through the applications I have open?

I have a simple one line script set to run at startup that simply launches a java application. The program is meant to just run in the background, so it is really annoying to have it show up when I alt-tab to switch applications. There is an option to hide it by right clicking on the notification icon, but I was wondering if there were a way to automatically hide it through that startup script.

Ubuntu 12.04

[numand]

@ezzy25,

http://askubuntu.com/questions/96011...-boot-in-11-10
http://askubuntu.com/questions/89518...rt-stop-daemon
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...-daemon.8.html

I hope these links will help you.

[ezzy25]

Thanks for the response. That seems to be more complicated that what I was trying to accomplish though... I guess all I really need is a way to hide an already running application. Any thoughts?

[numand]

You are wellcome @ezzy25. You can try to add "&" at the and of the command:

foo &

.

[zombifier25]

If you are using Unity 3D (Compiz), install ccsm:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

The launch ccsm, go to section Windows Management, enable Windows Rules. Then choose it, and add this line into "Skip Taskbar" and "Skip Pager":

title=nameofwindow

Replace nameofwindow with the title of the window you want.

[ezzy25]

Thanks guys! I was able to use Compiz to hide the application from the launcher and app switcher. I could not figure out how to start the application minimized, but I was able to use a simple devilspie script to hide the window once it is opened. Also, the & symbol was indeed required after the line to launch the application so that the next lines in the script to run the devilspie code could be executed.