Windows 10 Virtual Desktops - change taskbar buttons behavior
Feature request: add an option to always indicate that an app is already running on another desktop (a dot under icon? maybe different underline color?) as the default set of features in Windows 10 leaves a lot to be desired.
Right now under Settings > System > Mutitasking we can choose between the taskbar showing only the windows that are open on current desktop or windows from all desktops.
The first option is better for organizing work (the point of Virtual Desktops) but it makes it impossible to switch easily between different windows of the same app that are spread between desktops. Try this: set the option to "Only the desktop I'm using", then run two instances of an app on Desktop 1 and go to Desktop 2. There is no indication that the app is open on Desktop 1.
The solution is to switch to "All desktops" - the windows preview pops up, allowing the switching. Now run another instance of the app on Desktop 2. You can switch between the 3 windows, but there is no way of telling which is open on the current desktop or another. This option is also messy if you choose to never combine taskbar buttons, as the taskbar quickly becomes filled with wide buttons of apps from all the desktops.
The solution would be to discreetly indicate apps that are active on other desktops, e.g. with a different underline color or size, and allowing to always show window preview. Also, when automatically decombining buttons using 7TT, it would be nice to differentiate between the decombined buttons from the current and other desktops.
Additionally, I choose to never combine taskbar buttons - for me, it would be nice to show a combined and underlined app button when none of its windows are present on the current desktop.
I hope this isn't too much to ask. Thanks for the software as it is!
Option to make changes permanent if possible
I have made some registry hacks myself, but I'm not really that experienced, so I don't even know if any option could be permanent and stable. But this is just an idea...
I will look into this and make an application myself if I can make certain changes permanent (in my VM).
Something to note: after all this doesn't change much since a single process that monitors a taskbar is less CPU intensive than my audio driver, but I just don't like 3rd party processes just to keep settings alive, it just doesn't look that functional to me, and also... Placebo...
As for CPU usage, it's nearly zero. The only thing the tweaker does in the background is checking for updates every 24 hours, if the option is enabled. Other than that, it's completely idle (except when you open the GUI or restart explorer).
Icon of closed window blocking active window to take its spot in the taskbar
Prerequisite:
- 7tt 4.4
- Settings: http://i.imgur.com/nROIhh9.png
- Any program which opens a window before the actual main window pinned to the taskbar
I used Firefox and its commandline-parameter to open the Error Console on start, so the target looks like
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -jsconsoleAdditional info: http://i.imgur.com/r3iSpMi.png
STR:
After clicking on the tabbar icon, Firefox starts the Error console window (left Firefox-icon) and then the main window.
The taskbar and the Inspector look like "BEFORE" in the image.
If you close the Error Console, the active main window isn't taking over its spot in the taskbar, see "AFTER" in the image.
If you then close the main window, everything goes back to normal, see "CLOSED" in the image.
This does not happen with 7tt disabled and Win7 set to "never group".
Workaround:
To get the main window to take over the spot of the closed Error Console, switching from "Don't combine grouped buttons" to "Combine grouped buttons" and back fixes the problem temporarily for this instance.
Remove title but still leave the icon expanded/uncombined
The icons are centred in the taskbar and the tile is expanded but there's no label. Would there be any way for something like this to be added to 7+?
Task button uniform width when they are in two rows
Thanks for your wonderful program!
Please see the help file for more details.
The Feauture "Drag within/between groups using right mouse button" Stopped Working for Me
If that's still relevant, please either provide a way to reproduce the issue, or try to find out which option of the tweaker, if any, causes it.
A video which demonstrates the bug might also help.
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Feature request: "Cycle through windows" only cycles through windows on the current taskbar (for multiple displays)
So if for instance my taskbar was set to "Main taskbar and taskbar where window is open" and I had four Explorer windows open in total and two of those were on the secondary display then clicking on the Explorer item on the main display would cycle through all four and clicking on the Explorer item on the secondary display would cycle through just the two on that display.
If you set "Main taskbar and taskbar where window is open" and open, say, five explorer windows, two of which are on the secondary monitor, then scrolling over the main taskbar scrolls between the five, while scrolling over the secondary taskbar scrolls between the two which are on that specific monitor.
If you meant something else and I misunderstood the issue, please let me know.
Add modifier key to sometimes override Middle-click to close a program on the taskbar
Please delete this idea! :-)
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Hi there.
I use the setting to allow middle-click to close a window 99% of the time, for example, I have 6 Windows Exporer windows open, and I want to close a few of them, so middle-click on the ones I don't want - life saver!
But ocassionally I want to open one or two more, so need to right-click on one of them and select Windows Explorer. What I would like to do is be able to select a modifier key (Shift, Ctrl, Alt, Win) that temporarily disables middle-click to close, and instead reverts it to its default function of middle-click to spawn a new program instance.
Can you please add this!
Also, one more hotkey Windows provides by default is Shift + Left click.
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