From ef7fa0665e99e005c9e0d6e85954e457cf0d3e1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sommerfeld <sommerfeld@sommerfeld.dev>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 13:43:15 +0100
Subject: feat(sway): park thunderbird in scratchpad, toggle with Super+t
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Autostart thunderbird on sway launch; window rule parks it in the
scratchpad immediately so it runs in the background firing mako
notifications. Super+t toggles the window visible/hidden without
quitting the app — works around the long-standing lack of native
Linux tray support in Thunderbird.
---
 dot_config/sway/config | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'dot_config/sway/config')

diff --git a/dot_config/sway/config b/dot_config/sway/config
index f802a30..c2f0343 100644
--- a/dot_config/sway/config
+++ b/dot_config/sway/config
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ output * bg #282828 solid_color
 for_window [class="feh"] floating enable
 for_window [app_id="imv"] floating enable
 for_window [class="Tor Browser"] floating enable
+for_window [app_id="thunderbird"] move to scratchpad
 
 # ── Standard keybinds (sway defaults) ─────────────────────────────────────────
 bindsym $mod+Return exec $term
@@ -155,6 +156,9 @@ mode "qr" {
 }
 bindsym $mod+z mode "qr"
 
+# Thunderbird scratchpad toggle (auto-parked on launch, see window rules)
+bindsym $mod+t [app_id="thunderbird"] scratchpad show
+
 # ── Bar ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 bar {
     swaybar_command waybar
@@ -165,6 +169,7 @@ exec systemctl --user import-environment DISPLAY WAYLAND_DISPLAY SWAYSOCK XDG_CU
 exec dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd DISPLAY WAYLAND_DISPLAY SWAYSOCK XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
 exec "sleep 2 && ~/.config/sway/display-toggle.sh init"
 exec systemctl --user start sway-session.target
+exec thunderbird
 
 # GTK4 reads dark mode from gsettings (settings.ini's prefer-dark is GTK3 only).
 exec gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-dark'
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