The Wonderful Icon Alternatives

    The Wonderful Icon is described as 'small Windows utility that resides in your PC's taskbar tray'. There are more than 10 alternatives to The Wonderful Icon for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, PortableApps.com, Ubuntu and Compiz. The best alternative is RBTray, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like The Wonderful Icon are 4t Tray Minimizer (Freemium), KDE Mover-Sizer (Free, Open Source), DM2 (Free, Open Source) and MoveInactiveWin (Free).

    The list of alternatives was last updated Oct 23, 2019
    The Wonderful Icon info, screenshots & reviewsAlternatives to The Wonderful Icon
    • 23 alternatives

    • RBTray

      Allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.

      Discontinued

      Last update is from 2015 but the project has been forked: https://github.com/benbuck/rbtray

      • Free • Open Source
      • Windows
      • PortableApps.com
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    • 4t Tray Minimizer

      4t Tray Minimizer is a lightweight but powerful window manager, which helps you to free up space on the desktop and the taskbar via the following actions: Minimize To Tray...
      • Freemium
      • Windows
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    • KDE Mover-Sizer

      KDE Mover-Sizer is a lightweight program enabling KDE-style alt-click moving and resizing for Windows XP, 7, 2000, 2003, Windows Server, and Vista.
      • Free • Open Source
      • Windows
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    • DM2

      DM2 provides several Windows enhancements that may help in every-day work.

      Discontinued

      Last version is from 2007

      • Free • Open Source
      • Windows
      • PortableApps.com
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    • MoveInactiveWin

      Sometimes a lot of deskop clutter can hide a window (eg, open file, programs, files-explorer, dialogs)
      Move a window without activating it.
      • Free
      • Windows
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    • GhostTile

      Hide your running applications from Dock.
      • Mac
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      • FreeSnap

        Ever try to size a window so it just touches the edge of the screen? It’s tedious (at least for me).
        • Free
        • Windows
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        • Ghoster

          Dims all windows except the active one.

          Features:
          - Place a transparent image across the screen.
          - Highly configurable.
          • Free
          • Windows
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        • stalonetray

          Stalonetray is a stand-alone system tray (notification area) for X Window System/X11. Working with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager, it has minimal build and run-time dependencies (X11 lib only). Complete XEMBED support under development.
          • Free • Open Source
          • Linux
          • openSUSE
          • Arch Linux
          • Openbox
          • Fedora
          • Ubuntu
          • Compiz
          • Debian
          • X11
          • Enlightenment
          • Xmonad
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        • ZoneSize

          Define zones that autosize windows dropped on them.

          Features:
          - Hold a window over a zone for .5 sec to autosize it.
          - Doubleclick the tray icon to center the active window.
          • Free
          • Windows
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