# benbuck/rbtray

A fork of RBTray from http://sourceforge.net/p/rbtray/code/.

Repository: https://github.com/benbuck/rbtray
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rbtray
Language: C++
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: tray, tray-icon, mouse, hotkey, hook, keyboard
Last push: 2025-03-15T04:03:25+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 28/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 11, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3924, "days_push": 536, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1475, forks 116 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:49.842030+00:00)

## What it is
RBTray is a small Windows background utility that lets you minimize any window to the system tray by right-clicking its minimize button, shift-right-clicking its title bar, or pressing Control-Alt-Down. It is a maintained fork of the original SourceForge RBTray project, written in C++ and licensed under GPL-2.0.

## Use cases
- minimize any window to the system tray on windows
- keep apps running in the tray instead of the taskbar
- hide a window to the tray with a keyboard hotkey
- right-click minimize button to send a program to the tray
- reduce taskbar clutter by tray-minimizing background apps

## When to choose
- you want a tiny, free, open-source tray-minimizing utility for Windows
- you prefer multiple interaction methods (mouse gestures and hotkey)
- you need a lightweight tool with no installer, just an exe

## When to avoid
- you need to minimize Windows Store (UWP) apps, which are not supported
- you need new features, since the project is in maintenance mode
- mouse hooks conflict with other software and you dislike hotkey-only operation

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: gui, developer-tools
- domain: desktop-applications, developer-tools, windows
- platform: windows
- tags: system-tray, window-management, minimize-to-tray, hotkey, mouse-hook, c-plus-plus, desktop

## Member repositories
- benbuck/rbtray (main) score 28

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:49.842030+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:34:30.796828+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/benbuck/rbtray (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:49.842030+00:00, sha 94fcac16e816)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.