tray-icon lets you create tray icons for desktop applications.

Example

Create a tray icon without a menu.

use tray_icon::TrayIconBuilder;

let tray_icon = TrayIconBuilder::new()
    .with_tooltip("system-tray - tray icon library!")
    .with_icon(icon)
    .build()
    .unwrap();

Example

Create a tray icon with a menu.

use tray_icon::{TrayIconBuilder, menu::Menu};

let tray_menu = Menu::new();
let tray_icon = TrayIconBuilder::new()
    .with_menu(Box::new(tray_menu))
    .with_tooltip("system-tray - tray icon library!")
    .with_icon(icon)
    .build()
    .unwrap();

Processing tray events

You can use tray_event_receiver to get a reference to the TrayEventReceiver which you can use to listen to events when a click happens on the tray icon

use tray_icon::tray_event_receiver;

if let Ok(event) = tray_event_receiver().try_recv() {
    println!("{:?}", event);
}

You can also listen for the menu events using menu_event_listener to get events for the tray context menu.

use tray_icon::{tray_event_receiver, menu::menu_event_receiver};

if let Ok(event) = tray_event_receiver().try_recv() {
    println!("tray event: {:?}", event);
}

if let Ok(event) = menu_event_receiver().try_recv() {
    println!("menu event: {:?}", event);
}

License

Apache-2.0/MIT