Example or info how to run Systray as a service in Windows

[niels-s]

Hi there,

I'm looking around to see if I can find a solution to run my go binary as a service in windows. I've tried a couple things already:

1. I've tried using this go lib to setup a service but unfortunately this won't work nicely together with Systray since we need to start the ui in main: github.com/kardianos/service
2. Another approach I've tried is NSSM. While is was able to register a simple dummy go app printing a message every 5 seconds. NSSM doesn't play nice with Systray.

I'm hoping some of you can share you experiences on how you run you app's as a service on Windows in combination with Systray.

Thanks!

[myleshorton]

hey @niels-s -- in my experience windows services in general are a bit of a nightmare -- super cumbersome and error prone. If you want something to just run at startup, all you need is a registry setting. That's what lantern does.

[niels-s]

@myleshorton thanks for the info found the NSI script for lantern here

[phoenix147]

Since i came around the same problem, i just wanted to add, that it is technically impossible to show a system tray for processes running as service in windows. You have to write a second indicator application, that runs with user privileges, and somehow communicates with the service.

Mysql for example does this with its Notifier program.