fix: prevent Windows tray blur→hide race on window show (#3064)

[marceli1404]

Problem

Issue #3064: On Windows v7.0.0/v7.0.1, clicking the tray icon produces no visible result. The app runs in background (notifications, colored icon) but the window never appears. Silent failure — no errors in logs.

Root Cause

\�lectron-menubar's internal blur handler hides the window 100ms after it loses focus. On Windows, clicking the tray icon may not transfer focus to the window, causing the blur→hide timeout to fire immediately after \showWindow(). When this timeout fires before the first paint cycle, the user sees no visible result.

Relevant Menubar.ts code:
\\ ypescript
this._browserWindow.on('blur', () => {
if (!this._browserWindow) return;
this._browserWindow.isAlwaysOnTop()
? this.emit('focus-lost')
: (this._blurTimeout = setTimeout(() => {
this.hideWindow();
}, 100));
});
\\

If \�lwaysOnTop\ is true, the blur handler emits \ocus-lost\ instead of hiding — this is the escape hatch.

Fix

Listen for the \�fter-show\ event and temporarily set \�lwaysOnTop=true\ for 400ms after showing the window. This causes the blur handler to short-circuit via the \ocus-lost\ path instead of hiding. The user's \keepWindowOnBlur\ preference is restored after the blur race window passes.

Fixes #3064

[afonsojramos]

I was not quite able to reproduce on the windows machines I had access to, but hopefully this got addressed in the electron-menubar dependency.

[marceli1404]

Thanks for checking, @afonsojramos. The fix hooks into the �fter-show event and temporarily sets �lwaysOnTop: true for 400ms so the blur handler emits ocus-lost instead of calling hideWindow(). This works regardless of whether �lectron-menubar upstream has been updated, since it patches the behavior at the BrowserWindow level.

If you have a Windows machine available to test, the key scenario is: left-click or right-click the tray icon — the window should appear and remain visible instead of silently disappearing. Without the fix, the window flashes briefly and vanishes.

[afonsojramos]

We are the maintainers of the dependency, so the fix is easy to apply :)

[setchy]

Thanks everyone! 🙇 A good workaround.

I'm hopeful that electron fixes this themselves in a future release. I recall reading something about windows blur behavior changing, but wasn't expecting this type of regression.