KeepZotero is a zotero plugin to keep zotero in taskbar by remapping the key or changing the button behavior to minimize or give a confirmation dialog before close.
The master branch and version 0.1.0 starts to support Zotero 7.
For the user from Zotero 6. Please check Changes from Zotero 6 to Zotero 7
The master branch does not keep the implementation for Zotero 6. However, we still keep the keepzotero-update.rdf such that Zotero 6 users do not get invalid url message when checking plugin.
If you still want to use KeepZotero in Zotero 6, please check tag v0.0.2 and get the xpi under release v0.0.2.
- Download the *.xpi from Release
- Start Zotero: Tools -> Add-ons
- select "Install Add-on From File..." from the wheel on top right corner
- choose the xpi file
- This plugin can remap the common exit key (
Ctrl/Command + W,Ctrl+ Q,Alt + F4) to just minimize Zotero. - This new plugin (v0.2.0) can change the close button behavior to minmize the accident of closing Zotero.
There are some options to decide KeepZotero's behavior When Zotero is minimized, close from taskbar terminates Zotero.
- (Default: Yes) Change the close button of the title bar to minimize the window.
- (Default: Yes) Give a confirmation dialog when closing Zotero. If it is selected, user need to confirm exit to close Zotero. If Alt + F4 still performs
close, it will not trigger the confirmation dialog. (Unstable, especially MacOS) - (Default: yes) Make shortcut Ctrl/Command + W to be minimization Note. this shortcut still works on pdf reader or other place out of the main panel. The followings only have effect on Windows or Linux:
- (Default: yes) Make shortcut Alt + F4 to be minimization
- (Default: yes) Make shortcut Ctrl + Q to be minimization Note. MacOS Command + Q always closes entire Zotero.
If the current shortcut is not your usual shortcut (not the personal shortcut) to close the panel, please create an issue with the shortcut.
- Thanks to Thunderbird keepintaskbar. It gives me the direction.
- Thanks to make-it-red such that I can follow its structure and build this plugin for Zotero 7
Although I have some coding experience with different language, I do not learn JavaScript or Chrome Extension(?). Thus, the code may do some stupid things... When developing this plugin, I do not find the proper documentation to explain my questions, which I write them in the code. I will appreciate if someone notice any issue inside the code or have some answer to my questions.
- I do not find a way to detect the close event, which I used in KeepZotero for Zotero 6 does not work in Zotero 7. Currently, I add a event to the close button of title bar to change the behavior. It only changes the close button, so close functionality from the taskbar is not changed.