Whenever we write about the popular, if much ignored, Opera web browser one question will inevitably crop up in the comments: ‘How do you disable the Opera tray icon?’
It’s actually really simple to do. Quite why Opera themselves don’t let users disable it through the copious preferences/settings/options/appearance dialogues they have I’m not sure.
But, if the Opera status area icon is bugging you, here is a quick 3-step guide for disabling it on Ubuntu (or any OS, for that matter):
- Type ‘opera:config” in the URL bar and hit enter/return
- Search for ‘tray‘ in the search bar (or manually go to ‘userprefs’)
- Uncheck ‘show tray icon’.
Happy days!