Launcher doesn't appear in system tray

Deadline
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Hey all

I have Deadline Launcher set to open on startup of my computer but it won’t appear in the system tray as title implies. Even if I shut down the task in the task manager and restart it’s still not there.

I’ve tried setting both those parameters to true in the deadline.ini but it doesn’t change anything :

LaunchLauncherGuiAtStartup=True
NoGuiMode=True

It’s just to change one parameter of the worker and I have to set it up for multiple devices once i figure out how to.

Thanks

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Is it running as a service? because it doesn’t show up then. Do the logs show anything for deadlinelauncher?

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It appears in the service tab as deadline10launcherservice so I guess it’s installed as such ?

If so is it impossible to access it without reinstalling it ?

Also I don’t know which log to check

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Yes, it’s running, just not showing in the system tray.

The logs will be here…
C:\ProgramData\Thinkbox\Deadline10\logs\deadlinelauncher-yourPC-02-2024-11-12-0000.log

You should be able to launch the apps, but if you want the system tray option it’s probably easier to re-install without running as a service

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Okay thanks, just checked the logs and it’s running fine.

Guess I’m stuck because installs are managed by my organization so I’d have to ask them to reinstall on every single device which will never happen.

But weirdly sometimes it appears in the tray I don’t know what causes it i’ll keep an eye on it

6

what do you need the launcher for?

It’s possible you can launch the system tray too, but if there’s multiple users then it’ll only run under the first user

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I just need it to setup the idle timer when there’s no input on the device

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if it’s running as a service I don’t believe this works

There’s a few workarounds on this, you could have a logon script which stops the worker, and a logoff script which starts the worker, you need to force logoff the user after inactivity though