https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632 DisplayFusion RSS: Highlight around active window in preview Mon, 18 May 2026 12:09:58 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632#8 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:17:50 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632#8 DisplayFusion Yep! That'll be because the active window has it's highlight, and then the window you're hovering your mouse over on the taskbar also gets highlighted.

Thanks for posting the screenshot though, should help when we tweak the visuals. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632#7 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:15:52 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632#7 DisplayFusion With the Win7 taskbar, you can actually get a highlight around two preview windows. In the attached example, the left Firefox window is active in Windows, and I have moused over the right ("Downloads") icon in the taskbar. The preview for the active window has a brighter border around it. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632#6 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:08:13 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632#6 DisplayFusion Yep, it's the same most of the time ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632#5 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:50:38 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632#5 DisplayFusion Actually, my Win7 taskbar is set to combine when full. Same effect, though. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632#4 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:50:09 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632#4 DisplayFusion Ah I see, it's because your taskbar is set to Never Combine, so when you're hovering over two windows of the same program, it's grouping the previews, but you're actually hovering over one of the windows' taskbar button and it's highlighting it in the preview.

So, what we actually need to do is make the DisplayFusion taskbar attach windows from the same program to eachother on the taskbar and show the previews grouped.

I'll add it to our feature request list.

Thanks! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632#3 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:18:34 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632#3 DisplayFusion Attached. The Untitled message window is active in Windows. Notice the highlight around the one Firefox window. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632#2 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:29:11 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632#2 DisplayFusion Could post a screenshot of what you're seeing on the Windows 7 taskbar when neither of the grouped windows are active? In my attached screenshot, neither of the two windows are active and there is no highlight. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:45:27 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/highlight-around-active-window-in-preview/?ID=3178c6f6-3074-49d8-897b-ea9bf946f632 DisplayFusion From Keith in another discussion, "We've added the highlight for the active window preview. Still working on the option to cycle through windows on left-click." This is nice, but only works when the application is active. With the actual Win 7 taskbar previews, one of the windows will always have the border around it. With the DF taskbar, the preview only has the highlight border if it is the active application in Windows.

This is with beta 7. ]]>