Opera - no tray icon

The Opera tray icon bugs me firstly because it just wastes space. It also bugs me because the icon doesn't blend into my theme - it has a light opaque background.

The solution is to add the switch -notrayicon - ie:

opera -notrayicon

Also...

... I just discovered recently that LXPanel populates its menu from *.desktop files scattered about. To change Opera's shortcut for LXPanel you have to find its .desktop file. I do like so:

locate *.desktop | grep opera

Then edit that file - gksudo gedit ... - or whatever you prefer - and add the above switch to the line with 'Exec='. So the line is:

Exec=opera %u -notrayicon

I don't actually know what the %u is for - sure someone does.