Windows: right-clicking the systray icon isn't captured
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Description
On Win10, when right-clicking the systray icon, both the Keybase interface AND the default menu for taskbar opens.
The program should somehow inform Windows that it handled the click.

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Research direction
Start by locating the Windows systray icon click handling in the client and reproduce the behavior on Windows 10. Check how the right-click event is handled and verify that the taskbar's default menu no longer opens alongside the Keybase interface.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100