📕 Notice of deprecation

• This app likely won't work on your system without some experimentation/debugging; and even then it's probably not stable.
• My current solution to this is to run jupyter notebook in a Windows Terminal, and then to minimise the terminal to tray (either using the built-in feature, or a utility like Traymond).
• To execute the idea in this repo properly, a version oughta be written in C++ (and Qt).

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Jupytray

Run the Jupyter notebook server as a little app in the system tray.

That way you don't have to keep a separate command window open just for the server.

This app is made for Windows.

(It should be portable to Mac/Linux, as the GUI uses the cross-platform 'Qt' framework. Pull requests for such a port are welcome).

Installation

Make sure PyQt5 is installed:

conda install pyqt

Then run:

pip install jupytray

This will get you the

Finally, run

jupytray-shortcuts install

This will add shortcuts to the Windows Start menu and Startup folder.

Usage

Open the Start menu, type Jupytray, and hit enter.

This should start the tray app and the Jupyter notebook server.

The app will also auto-run at system restarts. (This can be disabled in the settings menu).

Deinstallation

First remove the Windows shortcuts:

jupytray-shortcuts uninstall

Then remove the Python package:

pip uninstall jupytray