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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How to open network icon in systray with PowerShell (not NCPA.cpl)

I'm searching for opening the network systray icon by powershell (left click), to show all of network avaliable connection. I've found of course about .cpl and NCPA, but not how I can open this systray popup programmatically. There is also netsh…
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c# problem with systray icons in windows-server

i work with windows server 2003 (and 2008) and C#, i have a problem with systray of the desktop.I have done an application for disk managment and when the application start, it hide itself from taskbar and adds an icon in the systray. When i click…
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PyQt5 - how do I change systray icon (when clicked) before running other code

I am very new to PyQt, so please bear with me. Here is example code of the sort of thing I have been working on: #!/usr/bin/python3 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import sys from PyQt5.QtGui import QIcon from PyQt5.QtWidgets import (QAction,…
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Systray application with Windows Service

I have a small service with c# (.net 4) that mainly detects session changes such as computer locks and unlocks and reports to a backend sql 2014 express server. I want to add a system tray application that will interact with the service / backend to…
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Replace an existing Winform HWND with another one?

I'm trying to hijack an existing window and replace it with the contents of a Winforms I own. I figured it would be pretty cool swapping the form's inner handle with the one I want to override, and wondered if anyone ever tried it? Cheers, Florian
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NotifyIcon and Form.Resize event in Windows application

I am trying to minimize my winapp to system tray. I have downloaded a sample project from codeproject. But it goes to systary on Form.Resize event. Code - private void Form_Resize(object sender, EventArgs e) { …
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Ubuntu: How to add Systray notification icon using an ruby app?

I would like to create a ruby app which will install a notification icon in ubuntu systray (just like Skype, DropBox etc). What would be the exact instructions to accomplish this? Pointers (or links) would be good too, to help me get started. I…
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How to restore an application from the SysTray? ShowWindow doesn't help since the Handle=0

Is it possible to restore a 3rd Party application which has been minimized to the SysTray? Calling ShowWindow is fine on apps minimized to the TaskBar but where the app has been minimized to the SysTray it appears its handle gets set to zero, and…
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How to thread a sys-tray balloon notification

I am making the system tray balloon notification as threaded. I am using win32api and win32gui. I wanted that whenever balloon_tip(title, msg) is called in the code, notification balloon should appear and simultaneously the execution of code goes…
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where to put a while loop in a system tray application so that loop starts with the app

I have created a System Tray Application using Windows Forms Template (Visual C++) in Visual Studio 2008. I have used ContextMenuStrip and NotifyIcon. It's a managed code as I have used the form and Drag/Drop. I want as soon as this System Tray…
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Where should i place mainloop?

I have a program written in IDLE3.3 and tkinter where I don't know where to place the mainloop(). The program creates a systray icon that creates a little note if you click on "new note" in the context menu. If there is the line…
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cx_freeze built app not showing systray icon in windows 7

I built an app with PyQt and cx_freeze that has a systray icon, however the icon does not show up in the system tray in Windows 7 (the app is there and running but just a blank spot - no icon). now it does work fine in windows XP on other computers,…
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Delphi "Tray" icon (NotifyIcon) context-menu does not disappear when clicking outside it

I'm trying to show a popup menu when right clicking my Notification Icon, which works fine; But I want the menu to disappear when the user clicks outside of that menu. It's supposedly by design as per KB135788 - PRB: Menus for Notification Icons Do…
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How to send message/activate a SysTray application?

We are trying to setup a SysTray application which can be activated from elsewhere. To be more specific the activation will come from a third party app which we cannot modify but allows us to activate our own app via its path (plus a…
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Odoo - how to hide conversations icon in menu bar

I'm customizing odoo community v14  We don't use the discuss module but it was installed by other modules we use, so I've removed the 'Discuss' menu item, but I can't find how to remove the conversions icon just at the left of were the the…
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