## Fixes

- Fix duplicate tray icon on macOS when hiding to tray
- Fix tray not showing in background mode on macOS
- Fix hide to tray broken on Windows/Linux
- Fix Shutdown button in web UI not working

cli/cli.js

@@ -694,29 +694,48 @@ function startServer(latestVersion) {
           await startTerminalUI(port);
           // Loop continues, show menu again
         } else if (choice === "hide") {
-          // Hide to tray: keep the CURRENT process alive (it already owns a
-          // macOS GUI session so NSStatusItem works). Spawning a detached child
-          // puts it outside the login session → systray silently fails on macOS.
           const { clearScreen } = require("./src/cli/utils/display");
           clearScreen();
 
-          // Survive terminal close — SIGHUP is sent when the launching shell exits
-          process.removeAllListeners("SIGHUP");
-          process.on("SIGHUP", () => {});
-
           // Enable auto startup on OS boot
           try {
             const { enableAutoStart } = require("./src/cli/tray/autostart");
             enableAutoStart(__filename);
           } catch (e) { }
 
-          console.log(`\n🔔 9Router is running in tray (PID: ${process.pid})`);
+          if (process.platform === "darwin") {
+            // macOS: keep current process alive — spawning a detached child puts
+            // it outside the login session so NSStatusItem silently fails.
+            process.removeAllListeners("SIGHUP");
+            process.on("SIGHUP", () => {});
+
+            console.log(`\n⏳ Switching to tray mode... (icon already visible in menu bar)`);
+            console.log(`🔔 9Router is running in tray (PID: ${process.pid})`);
+            console.log(`   Server: http://${displayHost}:${port}`);
+            console.log(`\n💡 You can close this terminal. Right-click tray icon to quit.\n`);
+
+            // Tray already init'd at startup — just keep event loop alive.
+            return;
+          }
+
+          // Windows/Linux: spawn detached bgProcess (systray works fine in child)
+          console.log(`\n⏳ Starting background process... (tray icon will appear in ~3s)`);
+
+          const bgProcess = spawn(process.execPath, [__filename, "--tray", "--skip-update", "-p", port.toString()], {
+            detached: true,
+            stdio: "ignore",
+            windowsHide: true,
+            env: { ...process.env }
+          });
+          bgProcess.unref();
+
+          console.log(`🔔 9Router is now running in background (PID: ${bgProcess.pid})`);
           console.log(`   Server: http://${displayHost}:${port}`);
           console.log(`\n💡 You can close this terminal. Right-click tray icon to quit.\n`);
 
-          // Tray icon already running (initTrayIcon was called above at startup).
-          // Nothing more to do — event loop keeps process alive via tray + server.
-          return;
+          // cleanup() kills server so bgProcess can claim the port fresh
+          cleanup();
+          process.exit(0);
         } else if (choice === "exit") {
           isShuttingDown = true;
           console.log("\nExiting...");

cli/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "9router",
-  "version": "0.4.49",
+  "version": "0.4.50",
   "description": "9Router CLI - Start and manage 9Router server",
   "bin": {
     "9router": "./cli.js"