https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8 DisplayFusion RSS: Taskbar auto-hide per monitor? Sat, 02 May 2026 07:51:07 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#9 Tue, 11 Oct 2022 20:58:06 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#9 DisplayFusion Ah! Thanks for letting me know. That's interesting. In any case, things are working well so far. Thanks again! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#8 Tue, 11 Oct 2022 19:39:59 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#8 DisplayFusion That's how that feature is supposed to work, it makes it translucent when the mouse isn't over top of it. It's a super old feature from the very early days of DisplayFusion (Windows XP days!). ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#7 Fri, 07 Oct 2022 23:03:21 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#7 DisplayFusion Huh, the taskbar opacity was set to 1%. I don't recall ever changing that setting. Setting it to higher appears to make the taskbar appear all of the time. I just returned it to 100% and it looks like that made it show all the time. I guess a question I'd have would be: Why would that cause the particular behavior with the taskbar becoming opaque and showing like an auto-hidden taskbar when hovering over the very bottom edge of the screen?

In any case, changing the opacity fixes the issue. Thanks again! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#6 Fri, 07 Oct 2022 19:26:33 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#6 DisplayFusion Oh, that's really strange! On the DisplayFusion Settings > Tasbkar tab, what's the Taskbar Opacity set to? If it's not already at 100%, can you set it to 100% and see if that helps? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#5 Fri, 07 Oct 2022 18:35:13 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#5 DisplayFusion Hi,

Issue hasn't been solved yet. It does not show itself when the taskbars on the other monitors are triggered. This is desired. However, it still auto-hides while reserving screen area for where the taskbar should be. I want the taskbar to always display, and it doesn't seem to be doing that.

I'll upload some photos of the behavior.

Thanks! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#4 Fri, 07 Oct 2022 18:16:35 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#4 DisplayFusion No worries, all good now then? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#3 Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:57:57 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#3 DisplayFusion Hi! Thanks for the quick response.

I tried this previously, which is what confused me. The Windows taskbar is set to auto-hide. I have a DisplayFusion taskbar set to Enabled, shown with the Windows taskbar. This one has the desired and expected behavior. No space reserved where the taskbar is/would be and it auto-hides until either I hover over it, or the Windows taskbar. I used the Disabled option on another monitor, and it reserves screen real estate where it should be displaying, however it too auto-hides until I hover over it. It does not show when Windows taskbar is activated which is expected. (This is what made me assume that I was using the options incorrectly/feature wasn't available.) ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#2 Thu, 06 Oct 2022 12:17:52 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8#2 DisplayFusion You can do this, yep! For each taskbar you want to auto-hide, right-click the taskbar, then navigate to Multi-Monitor Taskbar > Auto-Hide > Enabled.

That's a per-taskbar setting so you can do it selectively. Also note that for the tasbkar on the primary monitor, you'll have to control the auto-hide settings with the Windows taskbar settings. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8 Thu, 06 Oct 2022 01:14:53 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/taskbar-auto-hide-per-monitor/?ID=8c163890-2eaa-45f8-96e9-0b5be22fcca8 DisplayFusion Is there a way to configure the multi-monitor taskbar to auto-hide on certain monitors but leave it to display all the time on other(s)? I have a multi-monitor setup in which I would like 3 of the monitors to auto-hide, but have the 4th display the taskbar all the time. If not, can I suggest that as a future feature? Thanks! ]]>