When there is no time for Sametime

Short entry here but possibly useful for anyone who needs to use Lotus Notes but never uses any of the Sametime features. As someone fits the above criteria, I found it to be quite the irritation that, despite my efforts to disable Sametime, the tray icon nevertheless insisted on making an appearance. As it turns out, to remove the icon from the tray while your Notes client is launched, you have to edit a *.ini file. Here are the instructions:

1. Edit the plugin_customization.ini file in Notes : at c:\Program Files\lotus\notes\framework\rcp\plugin_customization.ini or c:\notes\framework\rcp\plugin_customization.ini

2. Add the following line: com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.application/useSystemTray=false

Once this is done, close Notes and launch it again. This should work.

I actually found my plugin_customization.ini file at c:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Notes\framework\rcp\ but it's expected that there's some varying between systems (naturally). Anyway, following these steps worked like a charm for me, so it should for you too, making your system tray just a little bit cleaner.

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