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[Linux] Closing RD Window shuts the application off

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For bugs, describe what you’re seeing Closing RD through UI (red/orange X), it will shutdown the application.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

  1. Open RD app on Linux
  2. Wait until RD services are ready to use
  3. Close the application using the UI (right upper corner - X icon)
  4. Hover on RD system tray icon
  5. You should see the message: Kubernetes is shutting down

Result Video: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/37411123/137770676-a8048bf8-098a-41b8-a214-685047c90b36.mov It could be related with/or similar: https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/714

Expected behaviour

  • Closing RD app via UI, should keep the App running on background
  • Closing RD app via UI, shouldn’t stop the RD running services/tools

Screenshots See Result

Setup (please complete the following information):

  • OS: Linux Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
  • Rancher Desktop version: 0.6.0-14-geda4c6e
  • Kubernetes version: 1.21.5

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Reactions:4
  • Comments:9 (5 by maintainers)

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2reactions
thehejikcommented, Feb 11, 2022

Also Show/Hide Window entry in the tray icon menu on right click would be useful (on Windows too).

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aitorpazoscommented, Feb 10, 2022

This would maybe make sense if there were no system tray. But having a system tray icon and seeing it disappear on window close is very annoying.

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