Appears to send program to system try while still leaving tab open in Taskbar.

Does not work on whatsapp desktop client :(

Maybe you can have a look ...

Hey,
i would really appreciate if i could minimize this programm:
https://www.image-line.com/support/flstudio_online_manual/html/plugins/Minihost%20Modular.htm

Maybe u have the time to look into that. I've tried using Shift + Mouse aswell but without any success.
This programm is free to download, all u have to do is to register for the forums, so its easier to look into that.

I have the latest Version of RBTray (64bit 4.6) and the latest Version of Win10

Best Regards

I have found an interesting behaviour of rbtray program.

1. Open Notepad.
2. Press Win+Alt+Down. Program is hidden, I see an icon in tray.
3. Click icon in tray. Program is restored, icon disappears.
4. Press Win+Alt+Down. Program is hidden, no icon in tray.
5. Press Win+Alt+Down again - icon appears.

If you write something in Notepad after step 3 or click anywhere in Notepad window then you can press Win+Alt+Down and everything works correctly (program disappears, icon in tray is visible).

Thank you for making this!

Only want to use for Magnifier App. Windows 10 forces Magnifier window to take up space on the task bar when minimized. I'm trying to make windows 10 zooming function as close to compiz native zooming (ubuntu) as possible.

Right-Clicking its minimize button - no result
Shift-Right-Clicking on its title bar - no result
Using the Windows-Alt-Down hotkey - Windows attempted to do it, the window minimized, stayed in taskbar, an icon appeared in systray, and disappeared when hovering over it in systray.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

fps drops with mouse movement in some 3D games while the software is running. Specifically pathfinder kingmaker and dragon quest xi. Issue seen on a nvidia GPU, was not seen on an AMD GPU before.

I was using 4t tray minimizer with an AMD gpu for months without issue. But with an upgrade to a 1080 the first game I ran showed some fps drops when the mouse was moved. I assumed it was just that game since some games did not have it. The game was dragon quest XI. It was not present in Rainbow Six siege and Shadow Tactics Blades of the showgun ( as far as I could tell). The issue popped up again in Pathfinder Kingmaker though. I shut down 4t and the issue was gone. So I started looking for alternatives, which brought me here.

But, the issue is present with this software as well.

I have found out that rbtray has negative performance impact on DBeaver, which is a Java-based application for managing databases. When rbtray is running then certain tasks in DBeaver that render elements on screen take much more time to complete than when rbtray is not running. It is most noticeable when I am opening new tables in tabs by double-clicking on their names in the left navigation pane. Rbtray makes opening the tabs about twice as slow.

I've written about it in the DBeaver issue tracker. That was about 4T Tray Minimizer but rbtray causes the same problem, probably some of the code is the same. My impression is that rbtray is slightly better with its performance impact than 4T Tray Minimizer but still noticeable.

I don't know if this problem affects only DBeaver or other Java applications, too. But this seems weird because opening new tabs in a Java UI should have nothing to do with minimizing whole windows so I don't think that rbtray should cause any slow downs - but it does.

I tested rbtray 4.10 on two different computers with Windows 10 64-bit and the same problem occurs on both.

Unable to minimize using the right click on minimize button method in Mozilla Thunderbird. However, pressing win+alt+⬇ and pressing shift+right click on the program window works.

Please update the version number.
If you right click on the RBTray.exe v4.10, in Details tab you have File version 4.7 and Product version 4.8.
Also, the RBHook.dll file has no version in Details tab.

When trying to minimize a VM running from Oracle VirtualBox, the default "Restore, Move, Size..." etc dialog box pops up.

Works great on everything else I've tested.

RBTray will make the task view (winkey + tab) malfunction by making it not respont to the keybind nine out of ten times. It also makes it inpossible to click inside any app after you manage to get the task view to open and other strange behavior.

I notice that someone forked this and quite blatantly replaced the GPL/Copyright notice.

I reported it to GitHub but they replied as follows:

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Please implement the possibility to make a window always on top:

• by right-clicking on Maximize button;
• by pressing Win+Alt+Up.

Also, it might be good if right click on Close button shows the menu with "Minimize to tray" and "Always on top" items, and "Always on top" item might be checked/unchecked.

Since some apps have problems with DLL injection: #17 #33
It would be nice to add command line option to use hotkey-only solution.

The app would simply skip hook registration and would work in hotkey-only mode.
This should solve issues with PUBG and other.
Hotkeys usually work in more cases than right-clicks...at least for me.

More things come to mind like persistent tray icon, options dialog etc, but that's beyond the scope of this issue.

Hi

So love your app. Lightweight low impact etc... problem is there seems to be some issues with it and games. The only game I have had this particular issue on so far is PUBG, but I don't have many games to try it on so I very much suspect there are other games that are affected. I believe I didn't have the issue with Fallout 76.

Basically with RBTray running in the background, as soon as you move the mouse in the game, the framerates tank. Soon you stop moving mouse, everything reverts to normal.

Another 'feature' of this bug is that when you hold the mouse button down and move the mouse, the stuttering doesn't occur.

I tried updating Riva Tuner to the latest version as per this thread: #13 but the issue is still present. Problem still occurs when you remove Riva Tuner from the equation.

Would be great to find a resolution. Thanks.

H! The best minimizing application have problem with minimizing the Opera web browser.
Opera window can not be minimized to the system tray by:

• Right-Clicking its minimize button
• Using the Windows-Alt-Down hotkey
  Works only:
• Shift-Right-Clicking on its title bar
  Thanks!

Thank you for still maintain RBTray, using it over 5 years..

I would like to inform a problem with WhatsApp application in windows 10.

The new key "Window+Alt+Down" works in WhatsApp app. but the right click in the WhatsApp application doesn't work.

I have always used this program in all these years because RBTray never support WhatsApp.

I had the strength to write this to finally stop using a specific program for WhatsApp to send to tray and in the future work only with RBTray <3
https://github.com/D4koon/WhatsappTray

Also, the fans are requesting it years ago; I have attached a picture showing a review from sourceforge
https://imgur.com/wOwRel1

Thanks I hope your answer!

Is there a way to start a program (with parameters) and minimized it immediately to SysTray by using RBtray?

if not: This feature should be added.
It should look like similar to

RBtray -minimize "D:\mytools\sometool123.exe -parm1 AAA -parm2 BBB"

Thank you
Claudia

Hello.
Tell please, can you add this feature? For example, I want Mozilla Firefox to be minimized to tray not by the right mouse button but by the left mouse button. Reassigning the mouse button to the left in some applications.

Regards.

I have a primitive little network monitoring script that currently runs minimized at startup. I want to get it off the taskbar. Rather than run as a hidden task scheduler job which deprives it of desktop UI notifications, I would like to simply be able to run 'rbtray X' where X is an arbitrary command line that I can specify (in this case run a batch file). This would get the script out of the visible UI until an event triggers an alert.

I see a lot of requests for "start in tray" questions online so this new enhancement might be popular.

From a glance, all that seemingly needs to happen is a method to pass the command line arguments into an exec() call of some sort, grab the window handle created, then send that handle the minimize to tray windows message.

To me, ideally this behavior would take over the left-click minimize behavior of the window and would minimize it back to the notification area with no right-click required.

Is it possible to add a feature to password protect minimized windows?
Want to add a password to prevent maximizing of windows, I don't know if this is something that can be done or if it is easy to implement. I don't care for the encryption of the password on my machine, I just want a simple password prompt whenever I try to maximize a window minimized with RBTray, password can be in plain text for what I care for this particular case, obviously other ppl may think different but I'm just saying in case this is doable and so you don't have too much of work on adding encryption and such.

Thanks.

I can (accidentally) hide to tray my dektop with the new realease (WIn+Alt+Down) which can become annoying.

I accidentally hid my taskbar (hence, my "tray") and the only way for me to get it back was to end the task "explorer" and restart it.

Can you make that new shortcut not work on Desktop/Taskbar.

(Windows 10)

I've seen this feature suggested on Sourceforge, but no answers. And haven't seen it mentioned on Github so figured I would.

start /min program.exe runs a program in a shell minimized, but it'd be great to hide it even more by minimizing to tray, like RBTray does.

Could RBTray do this, or do you experts have any suggestions for how to do this without RBTray?

Like:
-When doing rbtray.exe --restoreall it restores all the windows.

• when doing rbtray.exe --sendtotray -bypid <PID> it sends the window by that PID to the tray.
• When doing rbtray.exe --sendtotray -byname <name> it sends the window by that name to the tray.
• When doing rbtray.exe --restore <name> it restores that window.

I know there can be some problems with this since there can be multiple windows in the same process and other things. But I would like something like that so I can use something like ahk to restore the windows or just the plain terminal.

I could see myself running into hotkey conflicts with other programs . Can you make Win-Alt-Down changeable or at least the ability to disable it ?

Could you add a feature where right clicking on the maximize button toggles the window to stay on top. As in if its already in stay on top mode it disables it and vice versa?

It would be nice to have a option to turn on a static tray icon, so that the icon stays even after you have opened the application.

RBTray appears to not work on Win10 system. Tried both 32 and 64 binaries with no success. No problem with the original RBTray (2011 version)

System Details:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Version 10.0.17134 Build 17134
System Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3400 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)

Namely Photoshop and Illustrator, the problem sources from the fact that Right clicking minimize in those programs performs the same action as Left Click.

Given the new info shared in this comment, it would be great if we could run multiple instances of RBTray - one for each user.

Due to UAC, applications can only interact with other applications on the same access level.

When RBTray is ran as administrator, it can perform its functions on windows that have been ran as administrator, but no other windows.

Similarly, when RBTray is not ran as administrator, it can perform its functions on windows that are not running as administrator.

I know you're not the author but you seem to have a dev environment setup to build this.

Could you (pretty please :-) )add an error check for Shell_NotifyIcon() failure and not hide the window in this case (eg don't call ShowWindows(SW_HIDE)).

People (including me) are experiencing "lost" windows that get hidden with no tray icon under Windows 10.

see https://sourceforge.net/p/rbtray/bugs/28/

The app works perfectly except for the new Alexa PC App. It partially minimizes to the tray but leaves the icon on the taskbar. When I click on the icon on the taskbar, it will not maximize. Meanwhile, there is a generic application card that appears in the system tray. It has the tag Alexa when I hover, but no Alexa icon. When I click on it, it operates successfully.

Per the title :)

A few other reported it here, too: https://sourceforge.net/p/rbtray/activity/?page=0&limit=100#5a0316735fcbc91c3c7884f1

Unable to minimize Windows app Groove Music to tray. Icon goes to tray, my main app remains in taskbar.

Hello! Is it possible to change (or to add) the method of minimizing to right click on close button of the window? If I can change something in the source code by myself, what should I do?

It would be awesome if somehow command prompt minimizing to system tray will also work. This is invreasingly important as many of dev servers are actually working in command prompt

It's not a minor fork, it's a brilliant one.

Thanks for those shortcuts.
Finally i can use RBTray in combination with
Opera (to listen to music in a background tab).

Thank you for keeping this project alive.

NOTE: I've copied/modified this request from the Sourceforge feature request here: https://sourceforge.net/p/rbtray/feature-requests/11/

It would be nice, if one could also use RBTray to start a new program minimized.

For example:

"C:\RBTray.exe Notepad.exe"

Would start Notepad.exe minimized in the system tray. I would use this, to start some programs service-like but still accessible in the system tray.

Hi Benbuck,
Is there any way to add a list (maybe from a config file) of apps that will automatically be hidden upon starting? Maybe also an option to have them automatically hide them instead of minimizing?
Thanks so much!

hello,

did not have any issues with rbtray till today, on previous windows versions all was ok :) , after the upgrade to win 10 190318362.30, the MSRA.exe tool is giving this error

any ideas? (if i end task rbtray.exe, the tool starts correctly, if rbtray is active the error persists, and reappears after any ok pressed like in the image

\rbtray\64bit\RBHook.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support. Error status 0xc0000428.

Hey, I don't see an issue template or any duplicates, though apologies if I'm missing something. I'd like to request a feature that I think (hope?) should be simple:

When an application whose path/name are on the whitelist is minimized normally, minimize it to tray. I'm not asking for a UI or anything, a txt or ini file formatted something like:

whitelist.txt

"C:\Program Files\Vendor\application.exe"
"C:\Program Files\Other Vendor\application2.exe"

...should work fine, in my mind. And then when an application that is on the whitelist (parsed at launch of rbtray.exe is probably fine) is minimized, that application minimizes instead to tray.

I'm thinking this should not be too much work, and it's a feature in other things that affect specific windows, but I might be underestimating the work. I'd take a crack at it myself, but it's been years since I've programmed in any C-family languages. If it's too much work (and believe me, I understand), I may try my hand at it anyhow and send a pull request if I'm successful, but no promises. 😅

When I first downloaded RBTray it was giving me issues so I did a little peeking at the bits and a PE header snooper app I use, TrID by M. Pontello is telling me the 32-bit files are in the 64-bit folder and 64-bit files in the 32-bit folder here :P

Could be wrong, but running the "32-bit" version resolved issues I was having and I'm running 64-bit Windows 10. Trid is usually pretty accurate identifying PE signatures.

32-bit files:
Collecting data from file: C:\Util\Startups\RBTray\32Bit\RBTray.exe
43.5% (.DLL) Win32 Dynamic Link Library (generic) (6578/25/2)
29.8% (.EXE) Win32 Executable (generic) (4508/7/1)
13.2% (.EXE) Generic Win/DOS Executable (2002/3)
13.2% (.EXE) DOS Executable Generic (2000/1)

Collecting data from file: C:\Util\Startups\RBTray\32Bit\RBHook.dll
64.6% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (27638/28/4)
15.3% (.DLL) Win32 Dynamic Link Library (generic) (6578/25/2)
10.5% (.EXE) Win32 Executable (generic) (4508/7/1)
4.6% (.EXE) Generic Win/DOS Executable (2002/3)
4.6% (.EXE) DOS Executable Generic (2000/1)

64-bit files
Collecting data from file: C:\Util\Startups\RBTray\64Bit\RBTray.exe
50.0% (.EXE) Generic Win/DOS Executable (2002/3)
49.9% (.EXE) DOS Executable Generic (2000/1)

Collecting data from file: C:\Util\Startups\RBTray\64Bit\RBHook.dll
50.0% (.EXE) Generic Win/DOS Executable (2002/3)
49.9% (.EXE) DOS Executable Generic (2000/1)

would really like to have notifications pop up and make a sound (like when the app isnt on the tray), instead of just silently appearing on the notification panel.

Hi

Thanks for the fork of this program works smoothly on win10.

Feature request i would like a hotkey Windows-Alt-Up to Restore Window

I work under limited account. To perform tasks that require elevated rights I always have Far Manager running elevated under different account. Now RBTray can't handle its window (though it can handle a window of a non-elevated process running under different account).

Was working on 2019 and previous. Win+Alt+Down puts a Webstorm icon in the systray, but does not minify the window. The systray icon disappears on mouseover.

Version 2020 changed the titlebar of the Window; there is now an integrated menu and titlebar.

Doesn't work with VirtualBox

While trying to play Halo MCC and having RBTray open it conflicts with EAC and stutters whenever you move the mouse.
Could you add a way to blacklist to certain applications?

Thanks!

I just right clicked on one of my minimized icons in the tray and selected Exit RBTray. Naturally, I thought that the program had closed, so I tested to confirm, and it had indeed closed.

I tried to launch the program again and got the message: "RBTray is already running"

So I tried minimizing a tab to tray and it doesn't work.

Did some digging... RBTray doesn't fully close when I hit Exit RBTray and just creates this endless loop of trying to open the program until you manually kill the task.

Steps to reproduce:

• Start RBTray
• Hide a window to tray
• Right click that icon in tray and select Exit RBTray
• Confirm it is closed by trying to minimize a window
• Try reopening RBTray
• Kill the task from taskmanager / cmd_
• Repeat