hexchat is started in a second instance from the start menu

[Imre Péntek]

steps to reproduce:

0, boot up your up-to-date Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
1, press the "windows" button on your keyboard (between ctrl and alt on the left bottom)
2, type hexchat
3, press enter

behaviour: hexchat starts in its first instance. so far so good.

4, use alt-tab to make hexchat the topmost window
5, now minimize hexchat (the _ icon at the top right of the window)

behaviour: hexchat doesn't minimize to the app tray on the left of the screen, instead it minimizes to the status tray on the top right

user story: as an ubuntu user I got used to bring my apps to the foreground by repeating the steps 2-3 from above. so I'm going to do so now:

6, type hexchat
7, press enter

actual behaviour: a second instance of hexchat starts
desired behaviour: the already started instance of hexchat should be brought to foreground

if I could make hexchat to minimize to the apps tray that would be great (there's no settings for it as far as I can tell)

thank you for the fix in advance.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: hexchat 2.16.0-4build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-46.49-generic 5.15.39
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-46-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Aug 28 13:57:31 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-05-05 (114 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: hexchat
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Imre Péntek (pentek-imre)]

video explanation: https://youtu.be/PSvm9pEUFaI (24MiB, 3:34)

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

Try going to Settings > Preferences > Chatting > Alerts and tweak the "Tray behaviour" sections (I'd start by unflagging the "Minimise to tray", but there are other options).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for hexchat (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]