How to make Tkinter Window appear in the taskbar?

A System Tray application allows your Tkinter window to minimize to the taskbar instead of completely closing. When minimized, the application continues running in the background and can be accessed through a system tray icon.

To create a System Tray icon for a Tkinter application, we use the pystray module in Python. This module provides built-in functions to configure the system tray icon and handle user interactions.

Installation

First, install the required module using pip ?

pip install pystray

Creating a System Tray Application

Follow these steps to create a system tray application ?

• Import required libraries − pystray and PIL (Pillow)

• Define a function hide_window() to withdraw the window

• Create menu items for "Show" and "Quit"

• Handle window close event to minimize to tray

Example

# Import the required libraries
from tkinter import *
from pystray import MenuItem as item
import pystray
from PIL import Image
import io
import base64

# Create an instance of tkinter frame or window
win = Tk()
win.title("System Tray Application")
win.geometry("400x300")

# Create a simple icon (16x16 pixels)
def create_icon():
    # Create a simple red square icon
    icon_data = base64.b64decode('''
    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