For what my input is worth, I'd just like to point out that I'm one of those people who is annoyed when an app which runs in the systray *exits* when I close the interface window (main or otherwise). For apps that support the "minimise to tray" functionality instead of "closing the window minimises to tray" idea, I find it particularly difficult to re-train myself to minimise instead of close. To me, minimise means "minimise to the task bar". Personally, I don't think that an extra button in the title-bar would cut the mustard either. Seems that the only viable option that I can see is to handle both preferences (far be it for me to force *my* preferences on another person) -- perhaps the solution is a global preference for this kind of thing so that neither I nor the OP have to configure multiple tray-aware apps to bend to our personal preference. This option could perhaps be a checkbox in the "Window Preferences" settings dialog available from System->Preferences->Windows Of course, getting tray-aware apps to honor this setting is a whole other bowl of pudding entirely. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. - Djikstra.