https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d DisplayFusion RSS: Chrome app icons on secondary taskbar Mon, 25 May 2026 06:32:41 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#12 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:51:20 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#12 DisplayFusion Okay, never mind, i fixed it!! Here's how I did it.:

I'll use Plex as my example.

"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory=Default --app-id=fpniocchabmgenibceglhnfeimmdhdfm

1. open "Chrome App Launcher"
2. right click the app you want to pin
3. select "Create Shortcuts"
4. Select "Desktop" only.
5. Go to desktop, right click the shortcut for the app, select "Properties"
6. Copy everything in "Target", then exit out.
7. ON DF taskbar, add a new shortcut.
8. Under "Application" enter the first part ""C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
9. Under "Command Line Arguments:" enter the rest, "--profile-directory=Default --app-id=fpniocchabmgenibceglhnfeimmdhdfm"
10. SAVE and enjoy!!

I still had issues with everything stacking up on the taskbar and showing the Chrome icon. I.E. If I had chrome and plex open or any other chrome apps running. To solve that go to "Multi-Monitor Taskbar/shortcuts" and Select "Automatic". The shortcuts will remain where they are and any open windows will be separate. So if you have Chrome, Plex, Gmail all open it'll show one for each one instead of stacking them and only showing the Chrome icon. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#11 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:23:21 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#11 DisplayFusion I'm still not having any joy with this. On the Win7 taskbar there's the Chrome App Launcher which has the shortcuts to Chrome Apps. One of which is Plex. If I right click on it, select "Pin To Taskbar" it'll pin it to the Win7 taskbar. I copied the properties from that shortcut:

"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory=Default --app id=fpniocchabmgenibceglhnfeimmdhdfm"

Then tried to add it to the DF taskbar, no joy. Any ideas on how to get the Chrome Apps to pin to the DF7.1 taskbar? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#10 Fri, 09 Jan 2015 19:45:08 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#10 DisplayFusion Looks like it's fixed in 7.1. Thanks! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#9 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 19:59:27 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#9 DisplayFusion Ah, that'll do it. We weren't checking the Start menu for the Chrome app icons

We should be able to add the Start menu to the search path for the icons fairly easily. I'll be sure to let you know as soon as that's fixed up.

Thanks! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#8 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 12:03:17 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#8 DisplayFusion That's a good question, Keith. I don't like pinning programs to the taskbar -- I've never liked that paradigm as I see the taskbar as a place for running apps only and I find it confusing to have both running and non-running apps on the same taskbar.

That said, I did experiment and found that if I pin the Chrome apps to the main (Windows) taskbar, I can then launch the app and the icon will display correctly on either screen (i.e., on both the Windows and DF taskbars). So for now, I can live with that. But before the new version, it was working fine for apps not pinned, so I'm hoping you can restore that functionality. The shortcuts to the Chrome apps are on the "All Programs" menu, by the way. That's where Chrome places them by default.

Thanks for your continued support. DisplayFusion is a great product that keeps getting better. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#7 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:44:47 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#7 DisplayFusion Ok, are the Chrome apps pinned to your Windows taskbar, or the DisplayFusion taskbar, or both? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#6 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:58:16 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#6 DisplayFusion Thank you for addressing this. Unfortunately, the beta has not fixed my issue with Chrome app window icons, although it did fix the Outlook message window icon. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#5 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 02:10:03 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#5 DisplayFusion We've just released a new DisplayFusion beta version (http://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta/) and this issue should be all fixed up. Please let us know if you run into any trouble after updating.

Thanks! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#4 Mon, 22 Dec 2014 16:13:05 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#4 DisplayFusion I do believe you are right. I had only noticed it with the Chrome apps, but Outlook is behaving similarly. Glad to hear this is a known issue and a fix is on the way. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#3 Mon, 22 Dec 2014 16:11:00 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#3 DisplayFusion We are looking at this issue for the next build, sorry about this. We tried to make it more like the Windows taskbar, but some of the use-cases are a bit backwards. This will be fixed in the next couple of weeks. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#2 Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:42:03 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d#2 DisplayFusion Sounds like my issue with Outlook. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d Mon, 22 Dec 2014 12:55:37 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/chrome-app-icons-on-secondary-taskbar/?ID=bad08e0c-022f-4cc2-9270-cbc89f7c817d DisplayFusion I just updated both my home and work computers to the latest version. Before the update, Chrome icons on the secondary taskbar behaved the same as on the primary Windows taskbar. That is, they displayed not the Chrome icon but the icon of the particular app that was running, for example Remember the Milk, Gmail, etc. Now when I have one or more Chrome apps running on my secondary monitor, the taskbar displays the generic Chrome icon for all of them. This is a problem because I can't discern between the apps. Is this a known issue? Both machines are running Win 7 64 bit. ]]>