Menubar label doesn't refresh when window is hidden

[lon9man]

What were you trying to do?

i am trying to refresh menubar-label periodically using my internal logic

What happened?

menubar-label refreshes itself only when open is visible. when window is hidden then label refreshes itself rarely without any predictable logic

How to reproduce the bug

project and screencast in the attachments. installed dependencies are removed.

1. run:
   composer install
npm install

2. run the project
   php artisan native:serve

3. open app window using menubar-icon, navigate to Login-page

4. menubar-label will show Date::now() periodically in 1 sec

5. hide window using menubar-icon

6. menubar-label stops refreshing, in some different periods it refreshes itself, but using non-predictable periods

7. also can be checked laravel.log to see log-records per each second of refreshing menubar-label:
   tail -f menubar-demo-app/storage/logs/laravel.log

Package Versions

"require": {
        "php": "^8.2",
        "laravel/framework": "^11.0",
        "laravel/tinker": "^2.10.1",
        "livewire/flux": "^2.0",
        "livewire/volt": "^1.6.7",
        "nativephp/electron": "^0.9.0"
    },

PHP Version

8.3.16

Laravel Version

11.44.1

Node Version

22.13.1

Which operating systems have you seen this occur on?

macOS

OS version

macos 15.3.1

Notes

screencast: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t_OJU4QyZ20QrqS2uINnnglQtbZNk5_i/view?usp=sharing

project: menubar-demo-app.zip

[SRWieZ]

Hi there!

This is the intended behavior. Livewire does not wire:poll when the viewport is not visible.

I suggest the following options, listed in order of simplicity:

• try wire:poll.keep-alive (https://livewire.laravel.com/docs/wire-poll#viewport-throttling)
• or use a sub-minute scheduled task (https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/scheduling#sub-minute-scheduled-tasks)
• or create a child process for background tasks (https://nativephp.com/docs/desktop/1/digging-deeper/child-processes)

[lon9man]

@SRWieZ thanks for the fast response! will try