And if you need a tray icon, birdtray works well.

And even with that proviso, I've been using birdtray for ages, and it works well enough.

The homepage of their website also has a very 'holier-than-thou' feel to it, it's not horrifically bad, but something about how it's written makes me feel like I'm being preached to by a televangelist.

https://www.betterbird.eu/##

Yeah, it's overkill, and also breaks on anything newer than java 11 or 12

On windows 11, I believe you just can't set it up without internet. There's a couple of registry hacks you can do to bypass that though.