On Windows the notification icon hangs around after the application quits, at least until you mouse over it. You can fix this behaviour with the following small change to your DeleteEvent handler:

protected void OnDeleteEvent(object sender, DeleteEventArgs a)
{
myStatusIcon.Visible = false; // <– hide icon before quitting
Application.Quit();
a.RetVal = true;
}

Kind regards,
Anthony.

You can use a Gdk.Pixbuf if you would just like to load an external image (Pixbuf will accept (png, tiff, jpg, gif, xpm, pcx, ico, xpm, xbm)

using Gdk;
myStatusIcon = new StatusIcon(new Gdk.Pixbuf(“/home/martijn/Desktop/images.jpeg”));

I haven’t yet tried to distribute this in an exe file, so I can’t help you there.

Cheers,
Martijn

However, I would like to add my own icon. How would this be accomplished? What format should the icon be in? Can the icon be stored inside the exe file?