chrisand1998/taskbarxi

An application written in C++ to modify the Windows 11 Taskbar.

taskbarxi's Issues

1.0.1.0 does not start

Errors with msvcp140.dll and vcruntime140.dll

VC_redist.x64.exe was installed. With 1.0.0.0 no problem. regsvr32.exe did not solve the problem.

Win 11

Dragable Windows Icon

It will be nice if the windows icon could be dragged around.

Bug: TaskbarXI crashed Windows 11

Here is the thing: The taskbar when with TaskbarXI is a little buggy (that's what I was gonna report but there is already a report on that) especially when no window is full screen. Out of curiosity, I just restarted explorer.exe to see if it would make thing any better. Then explorer crashed and after that my whole computer crashed and rebooted into safe mode. :(

Custom Resizing and Auto Hide problems

• With custom resize it doesn't work and it moves the icons, cutting the first 2/3 icons.
• With auto hide actived when u passing the mouse pointer the bar doesn't come out.

Suggestion: Ability to move the taskbar to the top or the sides

I have my taskbar at the top but on Windows 11 they're getting rid of the ability to move it. I'd be eternally grateful if you could fix what Microsoft broke 🙏🙏🙏

TaskbarXI

@ChrisAnd1998 Hey great work making taskbarXI. Looking forward to feature where even start icon is removed from taskbar.
Also to make start window full screen or something better maybe blur the background when it opens. also Action centre and or notification panel is gone seems little incomplete without it

Suggestion: Hide the start button or center it between the taskbar icons.

I think it would be a very cool addition if we had the ability to hide the start button, or center it between the pinned icons.

Suggestion : Icons in the taskbar

Maybe it would look cooler if we can manage the icon size in the taskbar.
Also, for the background square that shows that an app is open, would be great if we can remove it, and only show the opened apps with the default lines. (picture) (for those who want it to look more like macOS)
One more thing : I never used macOS so i don't know how the taskbar behaves when a window is in fullscreen, but here, when it's the case, the taskbar goes back to the default long one... or maybe its just because it's not finished yet.

Suggestion: Add an help parameter

It would be helpful to add an -h or --help flag just in case a user wants to know about all the features the app offers.

Feature Suggestion: Create an animation when extending the taskbar when accommodating the added icons

Janky animation

I like that the taskbar goes back to the full length when you open a window (i think showing the desktop when a window is maximized would look pretty weird) but I suggest adding a smoother animation when the taskbar goes back to normal. It is a bit janky rn with the taskbar kind of snapping back to normal. Otherwise this is a fantastic little tool and I defiantly prefer this over the normal taskbar. Keep it up! 👍

Only getting the wrapper on one screen

Only getting the wrapper on one of my 3 screens and its kinds blinking and the clock is missing on that one. it may be cuz i'm running Insider preview: version 22523.1000 rs_prerelease
But the ide is great, thanks for the work!!

Edge designer like Windows

It's a small detail but I thought it was more beautiful (I used the explorer itself open under the taskbar)
After:

Before:

[BUG] The icon splitting bug is back.

Make TaskbarXI in C#

Please make TaskbarXI in C# instead of VB.NET. It would be more practical to use and would encourage more contributions (Microsoft doesn't plan to develop VB.NET further and recommends to move as well).

Suggestion: Keep the apps at the center, throw the start menu to the left.

It would be great to keep the apps centered while having the start menu on the left.

It shows a line on the taskbar

Memory overwrite index problem

Application is not able to do anything for me due to taskbar_List first indes overwrite. I've attempted to create a pull request with a fix but failed due to luck of permissions.

Taskbar icons automatically disappear on desktop

The windows icon, search and the few icons randomly disappear from the taskbar, the tray and other features are also automatically hidden on going to the desktop.
Before:

After:

Feature Suggestion: Separating Taskbar into groups

Separating Taskbar into (3) groups which can be placed on individual monitors

1. Start/Search/Task View
2. Apps
3. System Tray/Action Center/Clock/Notifications

Example configuration: 1 goes on monitor first display, 2 goes on every display or just the second and 3 goes on the third display

This would be very nice when using full screen apps like games (right now you cannot really look at the clock because it is locked on the primary monitor and the game is there too)

Alternatively, if this is not possible: maybe enable the feature again that you can switch taskbars of primary and secondary monitor so you get the clock and notifications on the secondary monitor instead of the primary (this was possible in win 10)

ignoremax switch does not revert panel

TaskbarXI -ignoremax -blur

T reverting to original when a window is maximized

What changes do I need to make in the source code files to stop the taskbar from reverting to full size when a window is maximized?

taskbarXI just wont open

i just downloaded taskbarXI and when i try to open it. literally nothing happens. but in the background it says the app is running and when i click it it just says "do you want to exit taskbarXI" and nothing else

Im using windows 11 for this. pls help ;-;
And i cant seem to find the zip file for taskbarXI

Make the taskbar show up in second monitor only.

I have 2 monitors and I want the taskbar to show on second monitor only, the only way to achieve this is by making my second monitor the main display which is not convenient (eg: gaming)

How to launch TaskbarXI with transparent panel?

And so that the taskbar returns to its original state when the window is maximized.
Like it was done in the previous ( .Net ) version:

PS > (gps TaskbarXI).CommandLine
"C:\Users\user\bin\tbxi\TaskbarXI.exe" -tbs=1 -color=0;0;0;50 -dtbsowm=1

Help

How do you remove it idk how please help

WHATS NEW IN TASKBAR XI ?

Please give info about TaskbarXI @ChrisAnd1998

Not Sure How To Find .Exe File

Hello,

I came across your Github project and I'm excited to use it. However, when I download the zip file I can't seem to find the .exe file in the extracted folder. I see two separate downloads, one for the zip and one for the .exe. However, when I download the .exe file, I get an error message.

Could you please help me figure this out so I can try the software? I will appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Benny

How to use TaskbarXI features such as -sticky & -ignoremax

What is the correct syntax in order to apply the features?
And where to use them
I know this is some lowkey stuff, but i cannot figure it out due to my lack of cmd syntax knowledge, so i thought i might ask

[Bug] Icon Clipping

Only happens if you open the Own app itself e.g its message box and sometimes if u just open another app.
Would it be possible to make the taskbar to extend smoothly in a motion from the small to the bigger state and THEN fade the icon itself in?

Suggestion: Keep the start menu at the center, throw the apps to the left

I don't even know if that's possible, but it would be great to keep the taskbar more balanced. I like the centered start button a lot, but the left side becomes a wasted space.

Feature suggestion: Add a Rounding option to the taskbar

I saw an app on the Microsoft Store Called Rounded TB basically is rounds the corners of the Taskbar so why you don't implement that feature in Taskbar XI?

rounded corner unpolished

For example, light theme with darker wallpaper you see rounded corner unpolished. The corners have to been smoothed for better look.

Transparency effect disappears when explorer is restarted in task manager

When I restart windows explorer from the task manager taskbarxi stops working. The process still runs on the task manager but the transparency effect is gone. Then I have to go back to the configurator and click apply again.

Bug report: Double tray overflow chevron when there are notifications

Whenever the blue notification count badge is shown on Windows 11, there's an additional chevron icon displayed where there shouldn't be one, shown in the screenshot below to overlap the network status icon:

Feature suggestion: Add the option to place subtle vertical dividers between taskbar sections

Would be good to have the option to enable small vertical dividers between the group of core buttons (Start, search, task view, widgets, Teams chat), pinned apps and unpinned open apps, similar to the dock in macOS.

Feature Suggestion: Add an option to bring back the small taskbar icons

The registry hack people used to use to get a small taskbar has been broken for a little while and it doesn't seem like microsoft has any plans to add an official option, so it would be great to be able to make it smaller like we could on windows 10.

FR: Compatibility for Windows 10

Add compatibility for Windows 10

Feature suggestion: Ungroup and show window title in taskbar

Since MS has removed this feature from the upcoming windows 11, this would be a great thing to add, replicating the taskbarglomming level 2 functionality.

Can't delete Taskbar XI.exe

Please tell me the way to delete the Taskbar XI.exe file as soon as possible.

Thank Bro

Order of expand animation

When I open an application that is not pinned the animation looks phenomenal. However when i close that application the animation is exactly the same but reversed. the problem with this is hard to explain with words but basically the taskbar is shrinking before the app can close and the other pinned apps slide in. when opening an unpinned app it looks great because the taskbar scales up first but when it closes the taskbar should scale down after. I didn't look at your code and I don't even know any C++ so idk how hard this will be to accomplish.

Bug: Something weird is going on with the taskbar.

After killing the process and reenabling it, everything seems to work just fine, that happened when I tried to pin an app on the taskbar.

Bug: help option not working properly

There is two issues with the help option. First the help option runs the app also. Ideally help option should list out the options and not run the app itself. Second problem, which is somewhat subjective, is that the help option doesn't show itself in the same window as the app run in and instead open a new console window. Probably this happens only with external terminal emulator(I am using windows terminal). Help option though look cool should not be also that much visually overwhelming and should not override the user's terminal color choice.

doesn't seem to work when windows terminal is set as default terminal

Whats to come?

What's gonna be new to our Taskbar with TaskbarXI? Will we be able to change the home button? Can we change the height to the taskbar (I think its kinda tall tbh). Or will it come with the same things TaskbarX has?

Can't uninstall. Now my taskbar is ruined.

The UI for TaskbarXI won't show up. It starts when the computer is turned on, but there's no way to uninstall it.

TaskbarXI Question.

If I remember correctly doesn't Win 11s taskbar center the icons already? therefore taskbarXI would just add transparency, blur, etc? right?

Make the MSIX package

Hi, please make the MSIX package and upload it to Microsoft Store.
Thanks.

Feature suggestion: Add support for Mica material

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/signature-experiences/materials#mica

Suggestion: Add an option to group the system tray with the taskbar instead of leaving it at the right

This will probably result in better experience where a user will not have to take their cursor all the way to the right for icons. Reference image.