I've noticed some old posts on here with similar issues, I just thought I'd bring it up again, and list my particular issues, in hopes someone might have a fix to it. Taskbar Blur Toggle to remove blur that left For windows 8/8. Of course, I could solve at least the first issue (possibly the second, I'm not sure though) by simply not setting my taskbar to auto-hide but the taskbar ruins the look of my rainmeter skin, so I'd like to not have to do that. modify windows theme with style builder and set taskbar background to be blank. I can't control it, until I get my mouse and click somewhere on the screen), which is also a major annoyance, since it obviously takes you out of the experience of seamlessly playing media from an HTPC via remote control. The other issue I'd just like to lump in here, since I think it may be partially related, is that sometimes when coming out of the MBT screensaver (by pressing a remote button, usually one of the nav buttons), Emby theater loses focus (ie. This will also randomly happen while in the middle of watching something, though less frequently than while initially hitting play. Especially since it happens about 95% of the time I click "play" to start watching something. The only way I can get the taskbar to disappear once this happens is to switch MBT to windowed mode, and then maximize it again you could see how this would get annoying.
I can be browsing MBT just fine, with no visible taskbar strip, and it normally pops up as soon as I hit play on a title, but I believe it also happens from time to time while browsing through my collections. Not the whole taskbar, just the thin strip that you can see from your desktop when it's set to auto-hide. While I find most of them to be crippled or unstable or both, by all means explore alternatives as you like.I've been having this issue for quite some time, but I've pretty much just been dealing with it until now.įor whatever reason, having my taskbar set to auto-hide causes issues with MBT where the taskbar becomes visible while MBT is maximized. I have this problem with Google Play Music Desktop Player, where it randomly appears over all windows and steals focus after I click somewhere empty on my Desktop. You will see a lot of chatter about ways to disable the Windows taskbar, utilities that replicate some or most of the functionality of the Notification area, Start menu replacements and other tools like that. This might be just a simple case of focus stealing just because you clicked a Rainmeter skin and all the skins from Rainmeter that are on the same position just poped back into view. It lets you have your desktop look as cool as you like, while not sacrificing critical functionality. While you can hide the Windows Taskbar, put something down there that looks a lot like it, use some third party utilities to get a bare minimum of functionality, the fact is, you wont get close to what the Windows Taskbar does. Most of the screenshots you see with no Windows taskbar and just Rainmeter skins are just using "auto hide" so the taskbar only pops up when it is needed. I stand entirely by my original statement. Just something that kinda looks like one. Rainmeter can certainly be used to build something that "looks" like a taskbar, but it can't have applications minimize to it, it can't support drag and drop, it won't have active icons, it won't react to notifications from applications. The underlying windows functionality of a shortcut, right click properties, drag and drop on an application icon to launch, ect. Im using Simple Clean s 24 h clock, you can hide the date by setting the font size to 0. You can create icons that can be used to launch an application, much like a "shortcut" in Windows. Download a clock skin and adjust the size and color to your liking. It is not what it was intended for, and unless you pretty much want to just live without most of the power of these functions, you either have to stay with the built-in functionality or use some kind of actual shell replacement. It cannot even come close to replicating the Windows functions above. Given how powerful and flexible Rainmeter is, I can understand that. About every six months or so, the posts about how to use Rainmeter to replace the Windows Taskbar, Notification area, Start menu, and / or Windows Explorer seem to perk up.