Awake - Context menu of tray icon does not appear

[SomeoneElse00]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.84.0

Installation method

Microsoft Store

Running as admin

No

Area(s) with issue?

Awake

Steps to reproduce

Run Powetoys (autolaunch at startup), administrator setting disabled.

✔️ Expected Behavior

Right click context menu for powertoys shows and can be changed. Menu also appears upon left click.

❌ Actual Behavior

Menu does not appear, but hovering still shows the current config and app name. Left and right clicks do nothing.

Other Software

No response

[similar-issues-ai]

We've found some similar issues:

• Awake - system tray icon selection doesnt work #12272 , similarity score: 84%
• Bug in right-click menu of Awake app icon in the notification area  #12145 , similarity score: 83%

If any of the above are duplicates, please consider closing this issue out and adding additional context in the original issue.

Note: You can give me feedback by 👍 or 👎 this comment.

[SomeoneElse00]

We've found some similar issues:

Issues listed are not recent, and were previously resolved: leaving this open.

Just to note, the issue does not appear when running as admin on my system.

[dend]

@SomeoneElse00 - did you launch Awake as a standalone app or through PowerToys?

[SomeoneElse00]

I have PowerToys open on windows startup, so it should have launched with PowerToys.

[dend]

Try changing the settings from PowerToys for Awake - do they take effect (i.e., does the icon change)?

[SomeoneElse00]

The icons change correctly. Funny thing though, if I toggle off and on the entire utility, the icon disapears when turned off, then does not reappear when set to on.

[kpatzwald]

I can confirm this problem. Just seted up a new pc and install PowerToys 0.84 new (no update).

It appears when I switch Awake off and on again, than hide und unhide the tray-icon in the tray-settings (other symbols) and again switch awake off and on again. Maybe the first step is not nessessary. I have to check this.

[yyurkov]

I faced this issue on both my laptop and PC.

[LynX-gh]

Same Issue, even in stand alone mode the context menu doesn't work.
Also the icon disappears after a shutdown. Only shows up again when I restart.

[dend]

Investigating this. So far I cannot reproduce this on my machine, a brand new VM, and a clean "on the metal" Windows 11 install.

@kpatzwald @yyurkov @LynX-gh @SomeoneElse00 can you please provide your logs for Awake? This seems like isolated behavior but I want to make sure to add proper handling for next release.

[LynX-gh]

Logs for 0.84 from my Win 11 Pro Laptop

74efd4ee-679a-4183-be92-bc8cef5d1c06Log_2024-09-05.txt
fc862995-61d2-44dd-85da-89e78734427aLog_2024-09-05.txt
Log_2024-09-04.txt
Log_2024-09-05.txt
Log_2024-09-06.txt
Log_2024-09-07.txt
Log_2024-09-08.txt

[dend]

Thanks for the logs, @LynX-gh, this seems to be a duplicate of #34148 (i.e., the root cause is the same). I suspect it's because of the --use-parent-pid that was incorrectly defaulted to true. The issue should already be covered in #34717, but I will keep validating to make sure it's actually the root cause.

[SomeoneElse00]

Appreciate the help with the logs @LynX-gh. Thanks for the help with troubleshooting @dend!