Hide System Tray

[pintonunes]

Hi,

First of all, what a great software!! Congrats!

Now the question:
Its possible to run FFS completely silent?
I mean with no systray icon at all?

I'm doing a POC for my company and everything is fine. Except for the annoying green systray icon every xx seconds..
Even in RTS mode, i have a red systray icon and in every sync another green icon next to the red.

For me doesn't make much sense having 2 icons for the same app.
If i sync a folder that changes a lot, and keep the default 10 seconds idle time for RTS, every 10 seconds I have a green icon in systray.

Thanks in advance

[pintonunes]

Think I figure out by myself.

If i call freefilesync.exe from a vbs with the WScript.Shell.Run(FreeFileSync.exe, 0, True) will not work because the freefilesync.exe calls other exe inside the bin folder (x64, x86 binary).

So my solution was to use the vbs to call the right exe inside the bin folder (depending on the processor arch), use an ffs_batch with the <RunMinimized>false</RunMinimized>, and use the WScript.Shell.Run(FreeFileSync_xxxx.exe, 0, True).

Everything runs hidden now. Not disturbing users anymore.

Will be great if you can add some option like <RunHidden>true</RunHidden>.

Thanks anyway.

[surfjack]

Hi !

I set up a ffs_batch and a fss_real files to have a real time sync to a network drive.
When my sync folders are in heavy use ... every 10 seconds a green FFS icon appears in systray, and it changes to yellow colour and then it disappears.. so every 10 secongs i am annoying: whats happening in the systray?? puh, okay, only FFS does some syncronisation, calm down..

So, I would also appreciate a lot some option like <RunHidden>true</RunHidden> !!

Regards ;)

[Zenju]

You can hide systray icons manually since Windows 7.

[surfjack]

Okay, thats true. It is manually hideable.
But.. then we'll be forced to apply a show/hide rule for every task... (when we want to see everything but FFS in the tray).
And with this method, even a small triangle button occurs when the FFS task comes, and disappears again..

Ergo... we need the RunHidden feature! :)

[Zenju]

Hiding the notification area icon once is enough, since Windows stores this setting at application-level. Once set manually, there shouldn't even be a short flash anymore.