microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Quake mode leaves an empty tray icon even if window is closed
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Description
### Windows Terminal version
1.23.20211.0
### Windows build number
10.0.26200.0
### Other Software
_No response_
### Steps to reproduce
- Allow Windows Terminal to run in background
- Open quake mode with hotkey and close it with hotkey, sometimes (not always) a tray icon appears even if I have it disabled in settings (I would like to understand this but I actually don't)
- Oh well let's `exit` quake window
### Expected Behavior
- Tray icon disappears
### Actual Behavior
- Tray icon still there with nothing inside "Windows" flyout
Maybe related to https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/10179?
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