silence!

A simple, lightweight microphone mute toggle for Windows with global hotkey support

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✨ Features

• Global Hotkey — Mute/unmute your microphone from anywhere using a customizable keyboard shortcut
• System Tray — Lives quietly in your system tray with a color-coded icon (🟢 unmuted / 🔴 muted)
• Quick Toggle — Single click on the tray icon to toggle mute state
• Modifier Support — Use complex hotkeys like Ctrl + Alt + M or simple ones like F13
• Flexible Matching — Option to ignore additional modifiers (e.g., hotkey Shift + F23 also fires on Ctrl + Shift + F23)
• Auto-Start — Optionally launch with Windows
• Modern UI — Mica/Acrylic backdrop, smooth animations, native Windows 10/11 look
• Portable — No MSIX installer required, just extract and run

📸 Screenshot

🚀 Installation

Download Release (Recommended)

1. Go to Releases page
2. Download the latest silence-vX.X-win-x64.zip
3. Extract to any folder
4. Run silence!.exe

Build from Source

Requirements:

• Windows 10 version 1809 (build 17763) or later
• .NET 8.0 SDK
• Visual Studio 2022 with "Windows application development" workload (optional)

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/silence.git
cd silence

# Build and publish
dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained

The output will be in bin\Release\net8.0-windows10.0.19041.0\win-x64\publish\

📝 License

This project is open source. Feel free to use, modify, and distribute.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to:

• Report bugs
• Suggest features
• Submit pull requests

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Made with ❤️ for people who are tired of fumbling with mute buttons during meetings

developer: https://www.reddit.com/user/vertopolkaLF/ (for r/windows11 and r/windows verification)