DisplayFusion RSS: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:21:01 GMT

We've made a couple of changes for the shortcut pinning in 11.2 Beta 6. Could you try updating and let us know if you still run into this issue?

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:56:28 GMT

Ok great, thanks for confirming! Just wanted to make sure we found the correct root cause for the ticket. At first glance, I'm not sure how we'll work around that but we'll definitely let you know if we find a solution

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:42:18 GMT

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If you delete the previous versions from the folder, then try the pinned shortcut again, does it update correctly?

Yeah it did.

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:59:56 GMT

If you delete the previous versions from the folder, then try the pinned shortcut again, does it update correctly?

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 09:45:05 GMT

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Thanks! I think DF maybe isn't seeing that it needs to update the path because the old path is still there, even though Discord has updated to a newer path.

Does this file exist on your system?

C:\Users\Emil\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9170\Discord.exe

Yeah it does exist

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:23:01 GMT

Thanks! I think DF maybe isn't seeing that it needs to update the path because the old path is still there, even though Discord has updated to a newer path.

Does this file exist on your system?

C:\Users\Emil\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9170\Discord.exe

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:01:20 GMT

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Ok, could you send a new debug log for this?

On the DisplayFusion Settings > Troubleshooting tab, change the Logging drop-down to "L1: Log Minimal"
Next time it updates, try exiting Discord and clicking the pinned shortcut on the DisplayFusion taskbar
Click the "Export Info to File" button on the Settings > Troubleshooting tab
Reply with the file attached
Disable debug logging after sending the log

Also, how are you pinning the shortcut originally? Are you opening Discord and the doing right-click > Pin this program to taskbar?

I didn't fix the shortcut in case anything further was needed. I followed the steps.

Yeah I'm right click pinning it on the df taskbar.

My discord is currently in C:\Users\Emil\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9183

I've tried opening the properties of the discord start menu shortcut, and I do notice it seems to be different, not sure if this could be relevant.
target: C:\Users\Emil\AppData\Local\Discord\Update.exe --processStart Discord.exe
start in: C:\Users\Emil\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9183

While DF's taskbar shortcut is like Application: C:\Users\Emil\AppData\Local\Discord\app-1.0.9170\Discord.exe

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:33:20 GMT

Ok, could you send a new debug log for this?

On the DisplayFusion Settings > Troubleshooting tab, change the Logging drop-down to "L1: Log Minimal"
Next time it updates, try exiting Discord and clicking the pinned shortcut on the DisplayFusion taskbar
Click the "Export Info to File" button on the Settings > Troubleshooting tab
Reply with the file attached
Disable debug logging after sending the log

Also, how are you pinning the shortcut originally? Are you opening Discord and the doing right-click > Pin this program to taskbar?

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:43:33 GMT

Hello,
I repinned it on the DF taskbar, and discord updated today.
The pin doesn't auto update, I closed discord and checked for any discord.exe in task manager.
Tried pressing the discord pin on DF taskbar with nothing happening.
Tried opening via windows taskbar, no change to pin.
Tried opening via startmenu, no change to pin.

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:21:15 GMT

Sounds good! Keep me posted if it's still an issue after re-creating the pinned shortcut.

Thanks!

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:49:07 GMT

Sometime after november 13th as I reinstalled windows then, I'll give it a try.

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:05:11 GMT

How long ago did you create this shortcut? If it was a while ago, could you try unpinning it and pinning a new one? Whenever we added the fix for auto-updating the path, I think it required the pinned shortcut to be removed and re-created before it would start working.

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:43:46 GMT

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@Emil: You should just be able to click the pinned button for Discord when it's not running and DisplayFusion will try to update the path automatically. Is Discord fully not running, or is it just in the tray? Can you check the Windows Task Manager > Details tab to make sure that Discord.exe is not listed before clicking on the DF taskbar pinned shortcut?

Thanks!

Hey, sorry for a bit later reply. Quite inconvenient having to wait for updates.
No it's not running in task manager > details

https://i.imgur.com/EdMvLQ1.png

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:00:31 GMT

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:01:57 GMT

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Hi!
This reply is very long overdue and I think is mostly recapturing what was discovered above-
A few months ago, I discovered (by accident) that there is a very simple way to update the taskbar icon.
I've attached a gif showcasing my discovery.

This issue is caused by the main taskbar still being managed by Windows, and still being the primary focus of opening programs, such as in this case-
Updating discord from within the client ALSO seems to cause the duplicate icon to appear, however both are solved by simply clicking the Display Fusion icon already present (inactive), which seemingly updates / corrects the shortcut to the updated version of the client.

Sorry for a bit of a gravedig here.
This doesn't seem to work for me, whether I click the DF pinned icon while the new discord is open or not. Just nothing happens.
Though perhaps you mean you press it after manually editing the path to the new exe?

I'm on 11.0.5

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:49:01 GMT

Yeah that makes sense. DisplayFusion can't always auto-detect that the pinned icon needs a path update so it does it on launch.

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:42:54 GMT

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:22:15 GMT

Interesting! I was able to reproduce it here by doing the following:

Exit Discord
Launch Discord from Start menu
Discord updated, and the DF pinned item still has the old path, so doesn't combine

But, if I then fully exited Discord, then launched from the DF pinned item, the DF pinned item updated its path correctly and everything is good. So it seems like our code for updating the pinned item path just needs to be triggered in another spot. We'll see what we can do

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:58:06 GMT

It took a while!

Updated Discord Canary this morning to 0.184 and the icon broke, test was with the mentioned "metro app" option selected.
Updating the directory for the pin fixes the issue, uncertain how or if that directory could be automatically updated without needing to edit the pin.
Discord does have multiple executables that can call the main application, some of which don't change directories, but I believe they all call the 0.184\Discord.exe into action and then close.

Besides pinning other random discord related executables, at this point I'm out of ideas to test.

My setup is:
Main taskbar is Windows while secondary taskbar is DisplayFusion.
Secondary taskbar has had Chrome pinned with a custom icon for years without issues, the pinned icon for chrome does not contain a version or build number in the directory, it is ProgramFiles\Chrome\Chrome.exe

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:00:34 GMT

Sounds good! I've got a Discord Canary button pinned here and I'm keeping an eye out for the next update as well to see what happens.

Thanks!

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:27:56 GMT

At first I was right clicking the default icon every time it reappeared to pin it.
This last week I've just been editing the old pin and changing the host build number to be +1.

Both the above act the same way,
although I've not built a taskbar pin from scratch.

Since Discord does have a property for the Metro (Universal) App ID, I attempted to edit a pin to only contain that data and omit the application directory, but it refused to save.
I have updated my pin with the checkbox "is this a Metro app" to enabled after today to see if this affects the next handful of updates.

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:39:06 GMT

That's good to know at least! Was the icon originally pinned by right-clicking the button for the running window and choosing "Pin to taskbar" or did you manually create the pinned item?

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 08:20:23 GMT

So I've been updating more frequently to try and find the cause of the break:
It appears as though my luck last week with the updates not breaking the icon was coincidental:
Minor updates to the binary do not break the icon, but updates to the client host build do-

client host updates are the updates that change the build number of the directory the exe binary is stored in.

I have also noted that changing the 'application directory' of the pinned item in DisplayFusion so that it matches the current build directory fixes the issue and returns the program back to it's original pinned place with the custom icon.

canary 264797 (b375cc2)
Host 1.0.176 x86 (43698) 

----- icon kept -----

canary 264975 (eef70b3)
Host 1.0.176 x86 (43711)

----- icon broke -----

canary 265157 (b28e06c)
Host 1.0.177 x86 (43747)

I almost doubt this information is useful, but at least means "leaving pinned items as default" is confirmed not a workaround or fix.

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 09:25:03 GMT

It broke again yesterday.
Testing another update now with default icon, working as intended.

I am testing with Canary, I'm going to start taking notes of the pinned item in DisplayFusion, as Canary updates more frequently, I can watch the build number to see if the directory is changing at the same time as the custom icon disappearing etc.

Currently, Discord is pinned at .\app-1.0.175\DiscordCanary.exe
Current build for Discord is Canary 264532 (ff07e79) Host 1.0.175 x86 (43675)
I ran the previous update with default icon again, I'll be changing back to a custom icon and return with another post as I find anything out.

RE: Multi-Monitor Taskbar and Discord

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:14:01 GMT

Gotta love intermittent issues

I haven't run into any trouble here yet with my Discord pin and custom icon but I'll keep a close watch on it.