Friday, June 22, 2012

Tixati's Secret Command Line

For a long time I've be wishing for some command line options for Tixati.

One day I enabled Tixati to start with windows hidden in system tray, with a 1 minute delay.  Windows doesn't support these options, so they had to be program specific...

Curious I investigated how it's done and I found the startup entry listed as this:

"C:\Program Files\tixati\tixati.exe" -starthiddenintray -d1

So I found some secret Command line parameters not mentioned in any guide:
-closenow: exits any running program
-starthiddenintray: start hidden in tray (self explanatory)
-startminimized: start minimized (self explanatory)
-d# delay of how long Tixati should wait before working (It still has it's icon in the tray waiting.  you can click it beforehand to launch immediately)

I wonder if there were any other command line switches?

Edit: using procexp, I searched the strings and found "closenow" near the other two strings.   Tested to work so adding to the list