Qt - notifications without tray icon, possible?

UPDATE: it seems this isn't working with recent versions of Qt. A workaround I found to make this work was to, after creating the QSystemTrayIcon:

  • Call show()
  • Display the desired message with showMessage
  • Call hide()

This works OK for me.

Create a QSystemTrayIcon but never call show() on it. Then you can use QSystemTrayIcon::showMessage to display your popup.


Just create popup class and show it somwhere on the desktop with always on top flag. Notification may also be a widget


a little late but you might be interested in this library https://github.com/Snorenotify/Snorenotify/

Snorenotify is a multi platform Qt notification framework. Using a plugin system it is possible to create notifications with many different notification systems on Windows, Unix and Mac.

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