QSystemTrayIcon Example

pyside.py

#!/usr/bin/python
 
# Import PySide classes
import sys
from PySide.QtCore import *
from PySide.QtGui import *
 

class App:
  def __init__(self):
    # Create a Qt application
    self.app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    
    icon = QIcon("jenkins_favicon.png")
    menu = QMenu()
    settingAction = menu.addAction("setting")
    settingAction.triggered.connect(self.setting)
    exitAction = menu.addAction("exit")
    exitAction.triggered.connect(sys.exit)
    
    self.tray = QSystemTrayIcon()
    self.tray.setIcon(icon)
    self.tray.setContextMenu(menu)
    self.tray.show()
    self.tray.setToolTip("unko!")
    self.tray.showMessage("hoge", "moge")
    self.tray.showMessage("fuga", "moge")
    
  def run(self):
    # Enter Qt application main loop
    self.app.exec_()
    sys.exit()

  def setting(self):
    self.dialog = QDialog()
    self.dialog.setWindowTitle("Setting Dialog")
    self.dialog.show()

if __name__ == "__main__":
  app = App()
  app.run()

First of all, great working example, thank you for it.
Is there a way to keep the application running after activating QDialog? I'm trying to do something similar, but whenever i open a QDialog with some QInputDialogs and finish working on them, the QSystemTrayIcon does not respond to any further commands. Menu does not show with right click and i cannot close the application.

I'm having the same issue... Did you find a solution? (Using PyQt5 on macOS over here..)

import sys
from PyQt5.QtGui import QIcon
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import (QApplication, QMainWindow, QMenu, QSystemTrayIcon)

class App(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(App, self).__init__(parent)

        # Load UI from file
        # uic.loadUi("app.ui", self)

        # Or write your entire UI in code
        self.setFixedSize(640, 480)

        # SysTray Icon
        self.tray = QSystemTrayIcon(self)

        # Check if System supports STray icons
        if self.tray.isSystemTrayAvailable():
            self.tray.setIcon(self.windowIcon())

            # Context Menu
            ctmenu = QMenu()
            actionshow = ctmenu.addAction("Show/Hide")
            actionshow.triggered.connect(lambda: self.hide() if self.isVisible() else self.show())
            actionquit = ctmenu.addAction("Quit")
            actionquit.triggered.connect(self.close)

            self.tray.setContextMenu(ctmenu)
            self.tray.show()
        else:
            # Destroy unused var
            self.tray = None

        # Show App
        self.show()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    application = QApplication(sys.argv)
    application.setApplicationName("App Name")
    application.setApplicationVersion("1.1.1.1.1")
    application.setOrganizationName("dev name")

    win = App()
    sys.exit(application.exec_())

More info:

• https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qsystemtrayicon.html
• https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qsystemtrayicon-members.html

This worked for me just replacing PyQt5 with PySide2. This pops the icon up on the top menu bar on macOS. Related question: how do you set the application icon on the macOS dock?

Thank you. It works great.