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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 start WinForm app minimized to tray?

I've successfully created an app that minimizes to the tray using a NotifyIcon. When the form is manually closed it is successfully hidden from the desktop, taskbar, and alt-tab. The problem occurs when trying to start with the app minimized. At…
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Quick and easy: trayicon with python?

I'd just need a quick example on how to easily put an icon with python on my systray. This means: I run the program, no window shows up, just a tray icon (I've got a png file) shows up in the systray and when I right-click on it a menu appears with…
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How do you create a Tray icon with FireMonkey?

With the new FireMonkey cross-platform tool, how does one create a tray icon? With Delphi it used to be TTrayIcon. The documentation has nothing, and no other questions seem to answer this. Would appreciate any idea (I can always resort to…
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Make the java systray look prettier in Linux

I'm making a Java Application on Linux that uses sytray using Java 6 and Swing. The app looks great (uses the system look and feel) but the systray looks awful. I mean the systray menu looks like old widgedts (Motif?). I wonder if there is a way to…
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How can I show a systray tooltip longer than 63 chars?

How can I show a systray tooltip longer than 63 chars? NotifyIcon.Text has a 63 chars limit, but I've seen that VNC Server has a longer tooltip. How can I do what VNC Server does?
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How to make a Windows Forms .NET application display as tray icon?

What needs to be done to have your .NET application show up in Window's system tray as icon? And how do you handle mousebutton clicks on said icon?
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JavaFX app in System Tray

I am Making a Simple App using JavaFX UI, The app simply just do that: has a systray icon, which when clicked shows a window, when clicked again hides it, on rightclick shows a menu with 1 "exit" item I already Made the UI and put the App in…
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Add image in window tray menu

I am writing simple tray for windows using python. I succeeded in creating a tray icon, menu, sub menu. I stucked at adding image for particular tray item. here is code I used. (Link) Even this code did not work. Windows documentation is not…
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Add icon tray on Windows using native Golang API

I'm developing a daemon with no UI apart from a simple icon in the Windows systray. I would like to have no dependencies on any other package(s), so I'm trying to use the syscall package and implement the necessary call(s) by…
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Can you send a signal to Windows Explorer to make it refresh the systray icons?

This problem has been afflicting me for quite a while and it's been really annoying. Every time I login after a reboot/power cycle the explorer takes some time to show up. I've taken the step of waiting for all the services to boot up and then I…
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Why am I seeing multiple Systray Icons?

I've added a Notify Icon to my app, and quite often I see up to 3 copies of the notify icon in my systray. is there a reason for this? is there a way to stop it from happening. Often this persists after my app has closed, untill I mose over to the…
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Running a Tkinter window and PysTray Icon together

I'm building a tkinter gui project and i'm looking for ways to run a tray icon with the tkinter window. I found Pystray library that does it, But now i'm trying to figure it out how to use this library (tray Icon) together with tkinter window, I…
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QT Systray icon appears next to launcher on Ubuntu instead of on the panel

I am new to QT and need to build an app with an app-indicator. As QT seems easier than GTK+, I am making it in QT. I would mention that I have sni-qt installed and app indicators of vlc and skype appear normal on the panel. I am using QT5 on Ubuntu…
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Icon exists in systray?

I want to check if an icon exists in the systray; as in, if "X" application has displayed their systray icon in the systray area. I've Googled for information about how to do this but I didn't find anything. UPDATE : This what I've tried in VB.NET…
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How to Shell_NotifyIcon WITHOUT adding an icon in the notification area

MSDN's documentation about Notifications and the Notification Area is pretty clear in the requirement for having an icon in the notification area in order to display a notification: To display a notification, you must have an icon in the…
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