appįiles for Mac, and distributable packages for Linux. We will only look at using PyInstaller here since regular Python packaging Python setuputils packaging (for pip and ).You can package your PyQt5 app in a number of ways including: tContextMenu(tray_menu) # Set right-click menu tIcon(QtGui.QIcon("icons/devdungeon32x32.png")) Instead, make it a QSystemTray # Example modified from įrom PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QSystemTrayIcon, QAction, QMenu, QStyle, qApp In that case,ĭon't make your main widget a Q MainWindow or a QWidget. You can also create application that doesn't have a main windowĪt all and lives entirely in the sytem tray. Self.notify("App minimized to system tray.") To exit, the right-click->Exit option from the system Hide the window, effectively performing a "close-to-system-tray"Īction. ay_icon.hide() # Do this or icon will linger until you hover after exitīy overriding closeEvent, we can ignore the event and instead ay_tContextMenu(tray_menu) # Set right-click menu # ay_tIcon(QtGui.QIcon("icons/devdungeon32x32.png"))Įxit_(self.exit_app) ay_tIcon(self.style().standardIcon(QStyle.SP_ComputerIcon)) Add an Exit option to the context menu of the system trayįrom PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QMainWindow, QSystemTrayIcon, QAction, QMenu, QStyle, qApp.Capture window close event, ignore, and hide window (exit to system tray).
Add custom action handlers to the context menu items.Running even when the main window is closed while leaving You can test your installation by attempting to run the Hello World applicationĬreating a system tray icon for your application can be If you are using Linux or a system that doesn't have the packagesįor pyqt5-tools you can usually find the Designer and other apps
It also includes many other utilities like qdbus, qdoc, qmlscene, linguist, and more. These packages will also provide pyuic5 for converting Designer files to Pythonįiles. On Mac, I found it can be run from your venv with venv/bin/qt5-tools designer. Your Python environment and should be available in your PATH as designer or pyqt5designer. You will find the designer in the site-packages/pyqt5_tools directory of
# Optional In Windows, you can get the designer tools from this package You can getīoth of these by running: # The primary package with all dependencies You need the pyqt5 package for Python and Qt Designer.
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