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In Godot 3.2, you will be able to hide it using Editor > Toggle System Console. This feature is already available in the master branch.

If you're on Godot 3.1 or earlier, you can use RBTray to hide the command prompt to the system tray.

See also this pull request which makes the console window toggleable.

One could also use RBTray to minimize the command window to the system tray, making it disappear from the task bar.

Idk if it is possible with pure AHK vanilla, but I've found this tiny tool:

RBTray

RBTray is a small Windows program that runs in the background and allows almost any window to be minimized to the system tray by:

• Right-Clicking its minimize button
• Shift-Right-Clicking on its title bar
• Using the Windows-Alt-Down hotkey

IIRC, a "dirty notepad" will prevent the latter.

1. Create a text file somewhere
2. Open the file in notepad
3. Make literally any change
4. Minimize notepad

Additionally, you can hide that window away with RBTray, if you prefer to save some taskbar space.

Try this fork of rbtray on GitHub which lets you shift-right-click anywhere in the titlebar to minimize to tray. Firefox draws its own user interface, so that may be why it's having problems. The forked version is working fine for me with Firefox 61.0.1 on Win7 when either right-clicking the minimize button or shift-right-clicking the titlebar.

Some install instructions:

• Click the green "Clone or Download" button on GitHub, and then "Download ZIP"
• Extract the ZIP file somewhere on your hard drive
• Make a folder somewhere where you want to install RBTray
• Copy the files (exe and dll) from either the x64 (for 64-bit windows), or x86 (for 32-bit windows) to the folder you made.
• Run rbtray.exe
• Optionally create a shortcut to rbtray.exe in the C:\ProgramData\microsoft\windows\start menu\Programs\Startup folder to have it run each time Windows starts.

Alternatively, just run RBTray-3.4-setup.exe from the v3 folder of the zip file, although it looks like it only installs the 32-bit version.

VirusTotal virus scans of 64-bit version:

• RBTray.exe
• RBHook.dll

You want to hide the taskbar entry when a window is minimized and create a tray icon entry for the application when the software was not designed to do this?

Programmatically that is not something that seems difficult to do from experience, likely someone has already developed such functionality. Maybe try googling the term "minimize to tray" and see what works.

should be something easy to write if it doesn't already exist tbh

Edit: this worked well for me, neato https://github.com/benbuck/rbtray