Systray Icon [upd]

A pause. Then the message appeared, word by word, as if typed by a ghost:

And then it vanished.

For cross-platform desktop apps, Qt's QSystemTrayIcon class provides a robust framework. systray icon

“I’m proud of you. Always was. Even when we stopped talking.” A pause

Using the pystray library is the most straightforward way to add a tray icon in Python. Install requirements via pip install pystray pillow . Implementation: Create an image using the Pillow library. A pause. Then the message appeared