Windhawk Tray GUI Bug
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100
Research direction
Start by tracing window initialization, system tray click handling, and single-instance communication in the Windhawk source; the issue does not name specific files or tests. Reproduce on Windows 11 with v1.7.3, inspect the two processes' MainWindowHandle values, and follow what happens when the tray icon is clicked. Done means clicking the tray icon opens the main window reliably.
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Description
Windhawk v1.7.3 runs normally in the background on Windows 11, but clicking its system-tray icon does not open the main window. Both running windhawk.exe processes initially had MainWindowHandle = 0. Manually restarting Windhawk restores background operation but does not fix the tray-to-GUI issue. Please investigate window initialization, tray click handling, and single-instance communication.
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- Rust
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