WTaskbar 0.16

New: volume control in the notification area. A speaker icon next to the keyboard layout shows the current volume — more waves the louder it is, a cross when muted.

• Click opens the slider in the style of the theme: in Windows 10 a strip with the output device, a speaker button to mute and the volume in percent; in XP and Vista a small popup above the icon with a vertical slider and a Mute checkbox. Arrow keys, Page Up/Down and Space work while it is open.
• Scroll over the icon changes the volume by 2 %.
• Right-click lists the output devices to switch between, plus Mute and Sound settings.
• Changes made elsewhere — volume keys, the macOS menu bar, plugging in headphones — show up on the icon right away.
• It can be turned off in Taskbar settings.

Fixed: a click on an empty part of the taskbar now closes Start, the calendar and the volume popup.

Install: download wtaskbar-0.16.dmg, open it and drag WTaskbar to Applications. The app is not notarized, so on first launch go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/WTaskbar.app

Requires macOS 13 or later.

WTaskbar 0.14

Fixed: a minimized window keeps its own button. With ungrouped buttons, minimizing a window of some apps — WExplorer among them — replaced its button (for example "Downloads") with a plain app button ("WExplorer"). macOS sometimes reports such a window as a dialog while its app is in the background, and the taskbar skipped it. A window that can be minimized is now always shown as a window. This replaces the 0.13 attempt, which did not fix the problem.

Install: download wtaskbar-0.14.dmg, open it and drag WTaskbar to Applications. The app is not notarized, so on first launch go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/WTaskbar.app

Requires macOS 13 or later.

WTaskbar 0.13

Fixed: a minimized window keeps its title on the taskbar. With ungrouped buttons, minimizing a window could switch its button from the window title back to the app name — for example, a WExplorer window showing "Downloads" turned into "WExplorer". The button now keeps the title the window had before it was minimized.

Install: download wtaskbar-0.13.dmg, open it and drag WTaskbar to Applications. The app is not notarized, so on first launch go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/WTaskbar.app

Requires macOS 13 or later.

WTaskbar 0.12

Fixed: the resize cursor no longer sticks over the taskbar. Clicking task buttons one after another sometimes left the up-and-down resize cursor over the taskbar. The app brought forward by the click set it from the edge of its own window under the bar. The taskbar now keeps the regular arrow cursor over itself.

Install: download wtaskbar-0.12.dmg, open it and drag WTaskbar to Applications. The app is not notarized, so on first launch go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/WTaskbar.app

Requires macOS 13 or later.

WTaskbar 0.11

New app icon. The taskbar now takes a third of the icon, with a large Start button and two apps, so the icon is easy to spot in Finder and Launchpad. It fills the whole rounded square on macOS 26.

Install: download wtaskbar-0.11.dmg, open it and drag WTaskbar to Applications. The app is not notarized, so on first launch go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/WTaskbar.app

Requires macOS 13 or later.

WTaskbar 0.10

Fixed: window buttons no longer flicker to the app name. With ungrouped buttons, a window's button sometimes showed the app name (for example "WExplorer") for a second instead of the window title. This happened when the app was busy and did not answer the taskbar in time. Now the taskbar keeps the last known windows and titles until the app answers.

Install: download wtaskbar-0.10.dmg, open it and drag WTaskbar to Applications. The app is not notarized, so on first launch go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/WTaskbar.app

Requires macOS 13 or later.

WTaskbar 0.9

New: the taskbar hides in full screen. Full-screen video (for example YouTube in Chrome) and apps in full screen no longer show the taskbar on top, like in Windows. It comes back when you leave full screen. Works per display: full screen on one monitor keeps the taskbar on the others.

Install: download wtaskbar-0.9.dmg, open it and drag WTaskbar to Applications. The app is not notarized, so on first launch go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/WTaskbar.app

Requires macOS 13 or later.

WTaskbar 0.8

New: maximized windows stay above the taskbar. macOS doesn't know about the taskbar, so with the Dock hidden it let windows fill the screen down to the bottom edge, under the taskbar. Now a window that is maximized, tiled to an edge or opened maximized is trimmed to end at the top of the taskbar, like in Windows. On by default; turn it off in Taskbar settings → Keep maximized windows above the taskbar.

• Windows you drag below the screen edge are left alone, as in Windows
• Full-screen windows and auto-hide mode are not affected

Needs Accessibility (Taskbar settings → Allow…). If you granted it to 0.7, it carries over.

Install: download wtaskbar-0.8.dmg, open it and drag WTaskbar to Applications. The app is not notarized, so on first launch go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/WTaskbar.app

Requires macOS 13 or later.

WTaskbar 0.7

First public release.

A Windows-style taskbar that replaces the Dock, in Windows 10, Windows Vista and Windows XP themes.

• Start menu: installed apps, type to search, pinned apps; XP and Vista have the classic two-column menu with All Programs
• Taskbar buttons: launch, bring to front, hide the active app; drag to reorder, including pinned apps
• Combine buttons always / when the taskbar is full / never, with a labeled button per window
• Keyboard layout indicator, clock with a calendar flyout, show desktop strip
• Taskbar settings: theme, scale (70–200 %), auto-hide, small buttons, multiple displays and more
• Hides the Dock and stays still when switching desktops, like the Dock

Install: download wtaskbar-0.7.dmg, open it and drag WTaskbar to Applications. The app is not notarized, so on first launch go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, or run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/WTaskbar.app

For per-window buttons and the window list, allow WTaskbar in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility (Taskbar settings → Allow…).

Requires macOS 13 or later.