A command line program monitor systray for Windows
- json configure
- systray
- run privileged child
- show/hide enable/disable daemon
- multiple command line programs
- when CommandTrayHost quits, all child processes will be killed.
- Customize systray icon & console icon
- i18n
- Menu level limit is 40
- Multiple instance of startup and running
- Hotkey
- Crontab
configure file name is config.json, in the same folder as CommandTrayHost.exe. Run once CommandTrayHost.exe, there will be a config.json with document. Supported encodings, UTF-8 UTF-8BOM UTF-16LE UTF-16BE UTF-32LE UTF32-BE.
example configure
{
"configs": [
{
"name": "kcptun 1080 8.8.8.1:12345", // Menu item name in systray
"path": "E:\\program\\kcptun-windows-amd64", // path which includes cmd exe, relative path is ok.
"cmd": "client_windows_amd64.exe -c client.json", // must contain .exe
"working_directory": "", // working directory, for client.json path. relative to path usually. start with > symbol to use relative path from CommandTrayHost.exe
"addition_env_path": "", //dll search path
"use_builtin_console": false, //CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE
"is_gui": false,
"enabled": true, // run when CommandTrayHost starts
// Optional
"require_admin": false, // to run as administrator, problems keywords: User Interface Privilege Isolation
"start_show": false, // whether to show when start process
"ignore_all": false, // whether to ignore operation to disable/enable all
"position": [
0.2, // STARTUPINFO.dwX if not greater than 1, it means proportions to screen resolution. Greater than 1, value
200 // STARTUPINFO.dwY, same as above
],
"size": [
0.5, // STARTUPINFO.dwXSize, as above
0.5 // STARTUPINFO.dwYSize, as above
],
"icon": "", // icon for console windows
"alpha": 170, // alpha for console windows, 0-255 integer
"topmost": false, // topmost for console windows
// alt win shift ctrl 0-9 A-Z, seperated by space or +. You can also use "ALT+WIN+CTRL+0x20"
// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd375731(v=vs.85).aspx
"hotkey": { // you don't nedd to set up all
"disable_enable": "Shift+Win+D", // disable/enable toggle
"hide_show": "Shift+Win+H", // hide/show toggle
"restart": "Shift+Win+R", // restart app
"elevate": "Shift+Win+A", // elevate
},
"not_host_by_commandtrayhost": false, // if true, commandtrayhost will not monitor it
"not_monitor_by_commandtrayhost": false, // if true, same as above. But quit with CommandTrayHost
"kill_timeout": 200, // post a message to let program quit itself, if timeout killing the process
"exclusion_id": 1, // kill all configs with same `exclusion_id` before to run current config. greater than 0.
"kill_process_tree": false, // kill all child process tree，for nginx
},
{
"name": "kcptun 1081 8.8.8.1:12346",
"path": "E:\\program\\kcptun-windows-amd64",
"cmd": "client_windows_amd64.exe -c client.json",
"working_directory": "E:\\program\\kcptun-windows-amd64\\config2",
"addition_env_path": "",
"use_builtin_console": false,
"is_gui": false,
"enabled": true
// Optional
"crontab_config": {
"crontab": "8 */2 15-16 29 2 *",
"method": "start", // start restart stop start_count_stop restart_count_stop
"count": 0, // times to run, 0 infinite
// Optional
"enabled": true,
"log": "commandtrayhost.log", // comment out this line to disable logging
"log_level": 0, // log level 0 1 2
"start_show": false, // comment out to use cache
},
"exclusion_id": 1,
},
{
"name": "herokuapp",
"path": "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs",
"cmd": "node.exe local.js -s yousecret-id.herokuapp.com -l 1090 -m camellia-256-cfb -k ItsATopSecret -r 80",
"working_directory": "E:\\program\\shadowsocks-heroku.git", // We use a different working directory
"addition_env_path": "",
"use_builtin_console": false,
"is_gui": false,
"enabled": true
},
{
"name": "shadowsocks",
"path": "E:\\program\\shadowsocks",
"cmd": "Shadowsocks.exe",
"working_directory": "",
"addition_env_path": "",
"use_builtin_console": false,
"is_gui": true,
"enabled": false
},
{
"name": "cow",
"path": "E:\\program\\cow",
"cmd": "cow.exe",
"working_directory": "",
"addition_env_path": "",
"use_builtin_console": false,
"is_gui": false,
"enabled": true
},
{
"name": "aria2",
"path": "E:\\program\\aria2-win-64bit",
"cmd": "aria2c.exe --conf=aria2.conf",
"working_directory": "",
"addition_env_path": "",
"use_builtin_console": false,
"is_gui": false,
"enabled": true,
"kill_timeout": 2000, // wait 2 seconds for saving aria2.session
},
{
"name": "JeliLicenseServer",
"path": "E:\\program\\JeliLicenseServer",
"cmd": "JeliLicenseServer_windows_amd64.exe -u admin -l 127.0.0.251",
"working_directory": "",
"addition_env_path": "",
"use_builtin_console": false,
"is_gui": false,
"enabled": true
},
],
"global": true,
// Optional
"require_admin": false, // To Run CommandTrayHost as Administrator
// If you set it to true, maybe you will need https://stefansundin.github.io/elevatedstartup/ to add startup support
"icon": "E:\\icons\\Mahm0udwally-All-Flat-Computer.ico", // Customize Tray Icon path
// when empty, builtin default icon will be used. 256x256
"icon_size": 256, // 256 32 16
"cmd_menu_max_length": 0, // maximium character limit for cmd and path item in menu. 0 infinite
"lang": "auto", // zh-CN en-US etc https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc233982.aspx
"groups": [ // groups is an array. Allowed element types are object and number.
{
"name": "kcptun", // object must have a name
"groups": [
0, // index of configs
1,
],
},
{
"name": "shadowsocks",
"groups": [
3,
2,
4,
],
},
5,
6,
{
"name": "empty test", // groups is optional for object, but name not.
},
],
"enable_groups": true,
"groups_menu_symbol": "+",
"left_click": [
0,
1
], // left click on tray icon, hide/show configs index. Empty to hide/show CommandTrayHost
"enable_cache": true,
"conform_cache_expire": true, // hot reloading will be disabled, when setting it to false
"disable_cache_position": false,
"disable_cache_size": false,
"disable_cache_enabled": true,
"disable_cache_show": false,
"disable_cache_alpha": false, // (only work for configs with alpha)
// alt win shift ctrl 0-9 A-Z, seperated by space or +. You can also use "ALT+WIN+CTRL+0x20"
// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd375731(v=vs.85).aspx
"hotkey": {
"disable_all": "Alt+Win+Shift+D",
"enable_all": "Alt Win + Shift +E",
"hide_all": "Alt+WIN+Shift+H",
"show_all": "AlT Win Shift s",
"restart_all": "ALT+Win+Shift+U",
"elevate": "Alt+wIn+Shift+A",
"exit": "Alt+Win+Shift+X",
"left_click": "Alt+Win+Shift+L",
"right_click": "Alt+Win+Shift+R",
// work for any program of current user
"add_alpha": "Alt+Ctrl+Win+0x26", // add alpha of current windows
"minus_alpha": "Alt+Ctrl+Win+0x28", // Alt+Ctrl+Win+↑↓
"topmost": "Alt+Ctrl+Win+T", // toggle topmost status
"hide_current": "Alt+Ctrl+Win+H", // hide current window to tray menu
"show_all_docked": "Alt+Ctrl+Win+S", // show all windows hiden by above hotkey
},
"repeat_mod_hotkey": false, // not work for XP
"global_hotkey_alpha_step": 5,
"show_hotkey_in_menu": true,
"enable_hotkey": true,
"start_show_silent": true,
"auto_hot_reloading_config": false, // if true, it's same as automatically clicking clear cache prompt No button
"auto_update": true,
"skip_prerelease": true,
"keep_update_history": false,
}Tips1: "cmd" must contain .exe. If you want to run a bat, you can use cmd.exe /c or cmd.exe /k.
Tips2: If you don't need privileged child, you can remove all "require_admin".
- CommandTrayHost run as an unprivileged user: you can run a privileged child process and restart it, but you cannot hide/show it. Because of User Interface Privilege Isolation.
- CommandTrayHost run as Administrator, everthing should work as you want. But you cannot use the builtin startup management.
Tips3: How to create ico format Here Or download from iconarchive.
Note: All paths must be "C:\\Windows" but not "C:\Windows". Json string will escape \<c>.
- Install VS2015 Update 3 or VS 2017
- Install vcpkg
- Hook up user-wide integration, run (note: requires admin on first use)
vcpkg integrate install - Install rapidjson and nlohmann::json.
vcpkg install rapidjson rapidjson:x64-windows nlohmann-json nlohmann-json:x64-windows - Open
CommandTrayHost.sln, and build.
In order to make sure resource.h and CommandTrayHost.rc is checkouted in encoding UTF-16LE(UCS-2) with BOM. Before run git clone, you need to add following script to %USERPROFILE%\.gitconfig .
[filter "utf16"]
clean = iconv -f utf-16le -t utf-8
smudge = iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-16le
requiredSee this file : CommandTrayHost/CommandTrayHost/language_data.h
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When restart process, keep the history standard output and standard error output in a ConsoleHelper. That's why there is a
use_builtin_console. Maybe I have to inject some code to child process. ConEmu -
UIPI (User Interface Privilege Isolation) Bypass.
ChangeWindowMessageFilterEx