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RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 22:48:08 GMT

I have this issue as well in 2023. Like the others have said, it's not a deal breaker, but would be nice.

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 10:51:39 GMT

This is an issue that has been bothering for years, and I revisit this thread from time to time to see if there has been any progress. I was thinking about it this morning, and I have a suggestion that might be worth investigating if it hasn't been already. I see that there are a number of apps that minimise an app from the taskbar to the system tray, such as 'MinimizeToTray' on GitHub. Perhaps it would be possible to incorporate such a function into DF so that if a universal app is displayed on the second monitor, the app disappears from the main Windows taskbar but still apppears on the DisplayFusion taskbar of the screen that is displaying the app.

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 14:44:11 GMT

+1 But I understand the reasoning for delay

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 01:04:14 GMT

I know this is not a super helpful message, but it would be really great if the apps showed up only on the correct taskbars.

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 14:47:48 GMT

+1 for this please!

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:57:33 GMT

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Hello,

Unfortunately, no updates yet, sorry!

Thanks for the quick response ! Hopefully soon

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:04:50 GMT

Hello,

Unfortunately, no updates yet, sorry!

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:36:03 GMT

Any news on a fix for this? It's quite annoying seeing the window appear on both my main and one of my side-monitors' taskbars.

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:05:37 GMT

Something I noticed for universal apps was that the path changes each time they are updated. I've changed all the paths for my universal apps to look like this; C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\**\BibleApp.Windows.exe just substitute the exe name as appropriate. Here's another example; C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\**\Slack.exe

I also vote for fixing the issue of the icons for universal apps being shown on both taskbars.

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 10:48:19 GMT

I agree this would be good to implement, confuses my stupid brain

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 08 May 2020 03:57:56 GMT

Add me to the list of people requesting a fix for this. Not a showstopper by any means, but it would be great to only have the app show on the proper monitor.

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 06 May 2020 17:53:57 GMT

Not yet, sorry!

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 01 May 2020 15:31:32 GMT

Any update on having Windows apps only show on one taskbar instead of all of them?

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:57:35 GMT

For sure. You can actually find it out now, it's just a bit of extra work. Here's how to do it:

Open the Universal app
Open the Windows Task Manager
On the Processes tab, click the arrow next to the app name to expand it
Right-click the app name thats indented below the main one and choose "Go to Details"
It should switch to the Details tab and highlight the process name
You can then use that process name with a * in front of it in the compatibility rule, like this:
```
*Calculator.exe
```

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:51:15 GMT

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Excellent, thanks Fred! We'll need to see if we can add a way to get those proper EXE paths in the Select Application window for Compatibility rules then.

Yes, because there is no way for me to know what the proper string would be for other universal apps. I tried (without success) to apply this to the Calculator app.

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:47:48 GMT

Excellent, thanks Fred! We'll need to see if we can add a way to get those proper EXE paths in the Select Application window for Compatibility rules then.

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:41:03 GMT

That worked! Both for Todist and Todist Preview apps.

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:28:06 GMT

Interesting! I'm seeing the same behaviour here. I wonder if this is a change made in the latest Windows 10 update.

Can you try this in the compatibility rule instead?

*Todoist.Universal.exe

Also, you'll want something more like -175 for the horizontal offset.

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 18:15:38 GMT

Here they are

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 14:05:38 GMT

Could you send me a screenshot of the Compatibility rule, and the Universal app window?

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 18:12:27 GMT

That does not appear to work.

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 16:39:42 GMT

For Univeral apps, you need to use the following as the Application:

C:\Windows\System32\ApplicationFrameHost.exe

All Universal app windows run in that container process, so the rule will affect all of them.

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 18:55:18 GMT

OK. Thanks. Another thing that does not work now is using Compatibility settings to move the titlebar on Windows 10 apps. You can't choose the app to apply the settings.

RE: Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 18:18:53 GMT

Not at the moment. It's on our list to fix up, but so far we haven't been able to find a way to do it. The Universal apps do this when we use the same API call to remove from the taskbar that we use for regular desktop apps, and we haven't been able to find another API for removing buttons from the Windows taskbar

Windows 10 apps showing on both monitors' taskbars

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:47:09 GMT

Is there a way to have it so that Windows 10 apps only show up in the taskbar of the monitor where the app is open? Right now the app appears (and takes space) on the taskbar of both monitors