thank you!
well, yes...and sits in a tab at the bottom of of my gnome bar as expected. I was hoping for either close OR minimize to disappear completely except for a small task bar icon in the top right. I am using gnome these days.

Thing is I'm thinkng that java apps don't do this generally which is fine ...and i have really been able to study and find JEdit perfect for me at this time.

So... is it possible to hit the program close X at the top right of JEdit and have it simply minimize to tray? I think it's called tray of applets area, not task bar.

Hope I made sense this time... hehehe :--)

I don't believe this is possible at the moment. jEdit's current requirements are Java 5, and I believe the System Tray support is only available after Java 6.

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/javase6/systemtray/

On Windows and Linux, closing the application (the "x" button) usually signifies that you want the application to "quit".

Mac applications behave as you've described with an explicit "COMMAND + Q" being required to actually exit the application.

I suppose you could fake jEdit into thinking it's running on a Mac, but I'm not sure what the results of this would be.

This doesn't seem like a bad feature though, if you're willing, please submit a feature request in the SourceForge tracker.

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elberry.. good to know. I am SO swamped and I don't know how long it would take to submit a feature request.. .a bit longer than this reply due to signup etc. not sure... hope to get to that later next week...

most appreciative of the comments, entirely.