DisplayFusion RSS: Show Desktop hides DF Taskbar https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69 DisplayFusion RSS: Show Desktop hides DF Taskbar Thu, 21 May 2026 14:07:58 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69 RE: Show Desktop hides DF Taskbar https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#10 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:16:28 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#10 DisplayFusion I was able to reproduce it again here, we've re-opened it to have another look at.

Thanks! ]]> RE: Show Desktop hides DF Taskbar https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#9 Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:59:24 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#9 DisplayFusion
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We've released a new beta that should fix this up, you can grab it here: https://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta/

Please let me know if you run into any issues after updating.

Thanks!


Owen,

Unfortunately the update did not fix the issue for me. The DF Taskbar on my secondary monitor still disappears when I click on the Show Desktop space (on either monitor). Note that after installing the update, I restarted the system just to be sure.

Is there a new setting that modifies this behavior that I should look for?

Edit: I reviewed the symtoms I described in my original report and one thing has changed with the new DF beta. Before, when I clicked on Show Desktop while DF was running, with a maximized RDP session window on desktop #2, all windows were hidden, including the RDP session window. With the new DF beta, the RDP session window is no longer hidden when clicking on Show Desktop. If I exit out of DF, that window is hidden as it should be. So not only is the DF Taskbar issue still present, but the beta has introduced a new problem. ]]> RE: Show Desktop hides DF Taskbar https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#8 Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:19:19 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#8 DisplayFusion We've released a new beta that should fix this up, you can grab it here: https://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta/

Please let me know if you run into any issues after updating.

Thanks! ]]> RE: Show Desktop hides DF Taskbar https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#7 Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:20:35 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#7 DisplayFusion Just checked and the issue still exists after more than a year. ]]> RE: Show Desktop hides DF Taskbar https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#6 Wed, 25 Dec 2024 00:33:36 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#6 DisplayFusion dump, same isse, second monitor is in portrait mode and left aligned and show desktop from alt+tab or windows native show desktop function both hides the DF taskbar on second monitor ]]> RE: Show Desktop hides DF Taskbar https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#5 Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:38:33 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#5 DisplayFusion I'm having the same issue.
I have a dual monitor setup with the taskbar for the left monitor set to right and the taskbar for the right monitor set to left. Hoping this gets fixed soon! ]]> RE: Show Desktop hides DF Taskbar https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#4 Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:54:20 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#4 DisplayFusion I never noticed this before, but can confirm ... at least in one instance on my system (running DF beta 25). I often have a remote desktop window open on my second monitor, and it's in full-screen mode. As such, the RDP window completely takes over monitor #2, showing its own taskbar, etc. When that RDP window is open and I click on Show Desktop, all windows are hidden, including the RDP window, as they should, but the DF taskbar on monitor #2 does not appear (just as the OP described).

What's unique here is that the DF taskbar is not shown anyway when the RDP window is displayed full-screen, but I guess I'd expect it to reappear after clicking on Show Desktop to hide all open windows.

I did try maximizing other windows on monitor #2, and the DF taskbar remains after clicking on Show Desktop, as it should.

Just for grins, I moved the maximized RDP window to monitor #1, which has the standard Windows taskbar. It hides the Windows taskbar, as it normally does, but when clicking on Show Desktop the correct taskbars appear on both monitor. So the reported behavior seems to be unique to monitors other than #1 (or, probably, only monitors that have a DF taskbar rather than the standard Windows taskbar), and specifically when a window on that monitor has taken over the entire screen.

I haven't found another app that when maximized to full-screen takes over the entire screen (and hiding the taskbar on that monitor) like RDP does, but there may be others.

[EDIT: my taskbars are all on the bottom] ]]> RE: Show Desktop hides DF Taskbar https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#3 Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:55:59 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#3 DisplayFusion Yes, I have my taskbars all set to the top of the monitors. ]]> RE: Show Desktop hides DF Taskbar https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#2 Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:13:25 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69#2 DisplayFusion Do you have your taskbar set to anything other then bottom? If so we are aware of this issue, and we have it on our list to look into.

Thanks! ]]> Show Desktop hides DF Taskbar https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:46:17 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/show-desktop-hides-df-taskbar/?ID=599b7937-b8c8-48ab-8509-b2be8cd74b69 DisplayFusion I am using DF Pro 10.0 Beta 22 on Windows 10 Version 21H2 Build 19044.2728.
When I click the Show Desktop button on the Windows taskbar or the DF taskbar, it minimizes all the open windows on both monitors, and the DF Taskbar on the second monitor is also hidden. I don't think it used to do that (I mainly hit the button by accident).
Is this intentional? ]]>