Native System Tray

System tray and menu bar integration for standalone!

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Demos

Windows | Mac | Linux

System tray and menu bar integration for Unity standalone applications.

Add system tray functionality (Windows/Linux) and menu bar extras (macOS) to your Unity games and apps. Supports context menus, submenus, checkboxes, click handlers, and hide-from-taskbar/dock - all through native OS integration with a single C# API.

Features

• System tray icons on Windows and Linux, menu bar extras on macOS
• Context menus with clickable items, non-interactive titles, and separators
• Nested submenus for organized menu hierarchies
• Checkbox items with runtime checked-state toggling
• Enable/disable items at runtime (grayed-out, non-clickable states)
• Runtime menu editing - rename items, remove single items, or clear the whole menu
• Tray icon tooltip (hover text on Windows/macOS)
• Runtime icon switching - swap the tray icon at any time
• Hide from taskbar / dock - minimize-to-tray style behavior - (Windows: taskbar + Alt-Tab, macOS: Dock + Cmd-Tab, Linux: best-effort via EWMH)
• Click events on the Unity main thread - no manual thread marshaling

Compatibility

• Unity 2022.3+
• Windows, macOS, and Linux standalone builds
• Testable in the Editor
• Demo scene with runtime console commands