Quick and easy: trayicon with python?

Question

I\'d just need a quick example on how to easily put an icon with python on my systray. This means: I run the program, no window shows up, just a tray icon (I\'ve got a png f

Answer 1

An alternative if you are trying to run a python based program in the background you can run it as a service. Check out this active state recipe its pretty useful. I believe one of the options is to convert your application to exe with py2exe or pyinstall.

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/551780/