v1.1.3 — the active desktop stands out

⬇ Download

DeskTabs-Setup-v1.1.3.exe — a normal setup wizard: pick a folder or keep the suggested one, tick autostart, done. No admin rights needed, and DeskTabs shows up in Apps & features with a proper uninstaller. An update keeps your settings, icons and time logs.

DeskTabs-v1.1.3.zip — the portable route: unpack it anywhere, keep the folder together and run DeskTabs.exe.

Both files are also listed under Assets at the bottom of this page. One line in PowerShell works as well:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paehtz/DeskTabs/main/setup.ps1 | iex

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A small release about seeing which desktop you are on.

The active desktop stands out

• Its colour bar is thicker and wider than the others, so the bar reads at a glance instead of on second look (ActiveBarBoost).
• The tint behind it was retuned: same hue, light enough that the label stays easy to read (TintL 86 in the light theme, 32 in the dark one).
• Optional: bold label for the active desktop, off by default, in the right-click menu under View (ActiveBold).

Fixed

• With the active style set to Uniform, solid fill, an icon from the built-in library was drawn in the desktop's own colour and nearly vanished into the fill. Library icons now switch to the label colour on a solid tab. Icons that come from a website or an image file keep their own colours, as they should.

Everything else

Unchanged from v1.1.2: keyboard shortcuts for jumping to a desktop, the icon library with search, tab icons from a website or a file, settings that survive a deleted desktop, the setup wizard, and reproducible builds with checksums.

Windows SmartScreen may warn on first start because the executable is not signed, and Smart App Control blocks it outright; free code signing for open source is being applied for (#10). Until then, people with Smart App Control can run DeskTabs from source with AutoHotkey v2 — see the README.