Since you mentioned high GPU usage, instead of the official app, why not use a lightweight TUI client like spotify_player?
You can also run it in the background using the --daemon flag if you wanted to.
That sounds super useful but I don't pay Spotify Premium. :(
I may start thinking about paying it.
Hmm. I never thought about this. But mostly because I think “minimizing” isn’t a great fit with i3/sway workflows. What I do is I move things like Spotify to a new workspace and only switch to that workspace as needed.
On my laptop I’ll have workspace 1 be my text editor and a web browser with reference docs. Workspace 2 is email client and work related chat. Workspace 3 is my music app and telegram. Etc.
For me the goal of i3/Sway is to minimize the need to use a the mouse. And minimizing / maximizing I think isn’t great for that.
I do exactly the same, I usually just move Spotify to my 9th workspace and I let it there, but recently I have been noticing a spike in GPU usage specifically done by Spotify, and I want to close it to tray so it doesn't use these resources.
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