Questions tagged [systray]

The system tray (or "systray") is a part of Microsoft Windows taskbar that is used to display some programs and notifications.

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Systray bubble not showing up (with enabled baloons in XP)

I was wondering what is wrong and after searching here I found out it could be due to disabled balloons, but thats not my case. I am using simple code, but it doesnt work. Thank you NotifyIcon ntf = new NotifyIcon(); …
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Python EasyGUI: Systray icon xor multiple windows

I'm writing a simple program that gives you a message to take a break from sitting at your Computer every x minutes. However, I also need to be able to close the program without having to wait for a window to pop up after x minutes. My ideas are…
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Is it possible to create a tray applet with Qt?

I want to make a tray applet using Qt that will use an output from a bash script to show some basic info. Is that possible to do in Qt? I wasn't able to find any tutorial via google, though.
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Correct behaviour for tray icon click?

When an application adds an icon to the system tray and minimises to it, there must be a way to restore it. However, when it comes to restoring the window I'm not sure what the 'correct' behaviour is for applications. Do I restore on a double click,…
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Hardcodet.Wpf.TaskbarNotification Blank Duplicate system tray icon

When loading my systray icon view xaml which uses Hardcodet.Wpf.TaskbarNotification proxy, a duplicate systray icon renders with a blank icon alongside the correct functional systray icon. Are there any known bugs with…
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How do I not have a Window displayed on launch?

Possible Duplicate: How to make the startup form initially invisible or hidden My application has a System Tray and I don't want the Window appearing on launch. How can I accomplish this? This is a default Windows Form application. I dragged…
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How to make an Adobe Air Application that only shows in the taskbar?

I've followed the Adobe instrunctions on how to create an app without windows (link). The gist is that you can do this by hiding or closing the original nativeWindow and creating a new one with theUTILITY or LIGHTWEIGHT property. Unfortunately,…
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Run a systray-icon parallel to a PyQt5 GUI

I'm programming an app in Python that should run processes in the background. In order to be able to control this, I implemented a systray icon. The systray-icon should also be able to open a user interface that I wrote with PyQt5. If you close the…
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Making a clock applet with GTK status icon?

I know how to do normal systray icon in GTK with gtk_status_icon_new(), but how to do a clock systray app that is much wider than the normal icon? I do not care if your answer is for GTK v2 or v3.
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Crypto Price Tracker in System Tray using python [unable to update the pystray icon each time a new price is fetched]

I want the image to update in the system tray each time a new price is fetched function 'reloadapi()' is threaded to fetch the price of the crypto again and again. But the pystray function 'run()/run_detached()' has a thread inside it that doesn't…
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How to show popup menu with Access VBA systray on Windows 10?

I have an Access program (accde) that starts minimized on systray. When the user clicks on the systray program icon a popup menu must be shown. All worked until today. Today I adapted the program for 64 bits and vb7. It works except it is not…
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Why isn't the popup menu for my System Tray Icon responding to inputs?

I've been working on a background java program for a while and its almost ready to be released so I thought I should probably add a way to exit the program. I have this function: private static void setupSysTray() { if…
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Nodejs - small Express server + trayicon + pkg

I'm trying to find out if smaller file size is possible, to have distributable one file for Express based API server app with some trayicon for basic controls - basically exit + restart app + open the API in default browser. With Electron Builder I…
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ShowWindow() showing blank app until is interacted with via mouse/keyboard after restoring from systray in C++ - Flutter App

I've been wanting to incorporate systray functionality into my Flutter app so I went to modify the native C++ code that initiates the window etc to see if I could hook into it. Despite not having much prior experience in C++ I have been able to…
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windows 10 system tray app crashing after several hours of running. What might be the cause?

I really want to add more context but at the moment I'm just lost. When I click the link to show what line it failed on it points to this (' win32gui.PumpMessages() ') I can say it seems to occur after an hour or so of the computer in a standby…