I am looking at having the Task Manager be minimized in the Notification Area on login, because it is so handy both with mouse-over (which gives processes, cpu, memory and swap) and of course launched. I tried a number of different approaches, without success, so finally posted on the Xfce Forum.
ToZ confirmed that the usual procedures don't work, so he suggested using a script:
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#!/bin/bash
xfce4-taskmanager &
sleep 1
xdotool windowminimize $(wmctrl -l | grep "Task Manager" | awk '{print $1}')
I created a script with that, made it executable, then pointed to it with a new entry in Session and Startup. It didn't work, so I stepped through the commands and discovered that wmctrl is not installed. Once installed, all was good; so I post it here in case anyone else is interested in using it.