Building a Menubar App with Tauri v2 — What Nobody Tells You

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. A menubar app looks simple from the outside. Click the icon, panel appears, click away, panel hides. The implementation has more moving parts than you'd expect — especially in Tauri v2, where menubar support changed significantly from v1. The basic setup Tauri v2 doesn't have a built-in "menubar mode." You build it by combining a few primitives: a system tray icon, a frameless window, and some positioning logic. use tauri ::{ Manager , SystemTray , Sys