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"Tracky Mouse Screen Overlay" window visible in taskbar after restarting Windows Explorer #47

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1j01 opened this issue Apr 13, 2024 · 1 comment
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"Tracky Mouse Screen Overlay" window visible in taskbar after restarting Windows Explorer #47

1j01 opened this issue Apr 13, 2024 · 1 comment
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1j01 commented Apr 13, 2024

It's meant to be hidden from the taskbar, but it's showing up in Windows 11.

I've had nothing but problems with the Windows 11 taskbar, so I don't know if this is even my fault - icons missing, freezing, taskbar buttons overlapping, windows not minimizing, etc. not to mention that they've removed the ability to choose which side of the screen the taskbar goes on! I would install Linux in a heartbeat, but I can't access my BIOS...

But hopefully it's a simple configuration issue.
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1j01 commented Apr 13, 2024

This is happening when I restart Windows Explorer from the Task Manager, which I'm having to do multiple times per day.
That makes sense why it's happening with Windows 11.

skipTaskbar is already set to true in the BrowserWindow options, but perhaps if I regularly call setSkipTaskbar, or try to detect if Windows Explorer is restarted, and call setSkipTaskbar, I could work around this.

Looks like this is the issue: electron/electron#29526

@1j01 1j01 changed the title "Tracky Mouse Screen Overlay" window visible in taskbar "Tracky Mouse Screen Overlay" window visible in taskbar after restarting Windows Explorer Apr 13, 2024
1j01 added a commit that referenced this issue Apr 17, 2024
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Stop overlay window closing via taskbar after Windows Explorer restart
f3d15c3 
If Windows Explorer is restarted, the Tracky Mouse Screen Overlay window
appears in the taskbar.
See: #47
And: electron/electron#29526

This partially remedies the situation, by handling the case where the
user can try to close the screen overlay window, which isn't supposed
to be possible.
1j01 added a commit that referenced this issue Apr 17, 2024
@1j01
Stop overlay window closing via taskbar after Windows Explorer restart
9e851df 
If Windows Explorer is restarted, the Tracky Mouse Screen Overlay window
appears in the taskbar.
See: #47
And: electron/electron#29526

This partially remedies the situation, by handling the case where the
user can try to close the screen overlay window, which isn't supposed
to be possible.
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