tray-launcher

A launcher for Windows that resides in the taskbar for managing .bat scripts.

Installation

Install tray-launcher with pip install tray-launcher.

Usage

tray-launcher comes with a command-line interface. Use launcher -h to learn more.

To get started, run launcher run, and a small icon will show on the taskbar.

Before running any scripts from tray-launcher, they need to be loaded. This can be done by clicking the option Load New Script(s) in the context menu. Alternatively, run launcher load [full path to the script]. Only .bat files are accepted.

To run a script, select it in the Start a Script submenu from the context menu, or click [View in Directory] to see all loaded scripts from a file dialogue, or run launcher start [script name].

tray-launcher listens to port 127.0.0.1:7686. If this port is not available, create the environment variable TRAY_LAUNCHER_PORT and set its value to an available port number.

A log for the tray-launcher and associated .bat scripts will be saved under %USERPROFILE%\.tray_launcher\logs.

If tray-launcher crashes, scripts started with tray-launcher will not terminate.

There is an expected delay when executing launcher run.

When the tray-launcher is run in a conda environment, scripts started with tray-launcher will run in the same conda environment. When a venv environment is used, scripts may not inherit the environment, and the user may need to add the activate command in a script if it should be run in the venv.