Floating Taskbar

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 by Shimizoki | Discussion: WindowBlinds

I am currently using Fearomone as my skin and I have found that it causes the taskbar to "float" roughly 2-3 pixels higher than it should. This allows a thin line to show through of the desktop wallpaper UNDER the taskbar.

I was wondering if this is a common ailment, a feature of the skin, or something I can remedy in skinstudio. I have already tried opening up the image in Paint.Net through skin studio and shifting the taskbar down, I have also tried cropping it to remove the bottom few pixels with no luck.

SIDE NOTE::

Anyone know how to remove the ghost image of Display Fusions task bar on the second monitor?

Top- Display Fusion Ghost Background thing
Bottom- Under Taskbar Background thing 

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DrJBHL
Reply #1 Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:30 PM

Shimizoki, do you have any other customization software installed, such as MyColors or Visual Styles?

Would you be so good as to open the "About" tab in your Windowblinds Config and copy/paste the info on the thread? I'm thinking WB might not have installed correctly.

Shimizoki
Reply #2 Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:51 PM

Of course. I also have no other customization programs as this is a clean install for my new purchase of stardock software. (I purchased OD, so only have those and Display Fusion installed as far as customization goes)

 

My About page:

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.9
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 7.3

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.3 (build 310 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
(Generic PnP Monitor) 2 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

Wblind.dll 2012/01/12 17:37:20
Wblind64.dll 2012/01/12 17:38:48
Wbsrv.dll 2011/09/26 14:10:56
SevenConfig.exe 2011/11/01 17:21:33
Wbload.exe 2010/10/20 15:08:35
Wbhelp.dll 2011/10/04 09:01:37
Tray.dll 2009/10/23 19:12:19
Wbload.dll 2010/06/07 14:59:25
Screen.exe 2010/06/07 14:59:43

 

EDIT::

I did not notice either of these problems yesterday when I was test running the free version of WB before my clean install.

RedneckDude
Reply #3 Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:01 PM

I just opened it in SkinStudio. The taskbar image has some transparent area below it. This is why it shows that way. Only way to fix it is to remove that transparent part.

 

In other words, it's by design.

Neilo
Reply #4 Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:01 PM

I am currently using Fearomone as my skin and I have found that it causes the taskbar to "float" roughly 2-3 pixels higher than it should.

I see the same thing using Fearomone, but only on my secondary monitor, not my main one. I run through all my skins and it happens only with this one. Again though, it skins fine on the primary screen.

I checked through for the ghosting as well, and i see the ghosting on any skin that does not utilize a full size taskbar. I hadn't yet used a blind without a full taskbar, so it wasn't apparent till Shimizoki mentioned it. Again, like Shimizoki, the ghosting is only on the secondary monitor.

Just Display Fusion having issues with visual styles again. Not a great deal for me, i hadn't even noticed it till now.

Win7 X64 with latest WB and latest DF.

Snowman
Reply #5 Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:10 PM


I am currently using Fearomone as my skin and I have found that it causes the taskbar to "float" roughly 2-3 pixels higher than it should. This allows a thin line to show through of the desktop wallpaper UNDER the taskbar.

I just gave the skin a run, and I do not get that 'line' underneath the taskbar. (Must be a Win7 specific feature)

Neilo
Just Display Fusion having issues with visual styles again.

Ayup. What Neilo said.

Snowman
Reply #6 Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:12 PM

(stupid quote thing acting up again)

Shimizoki
Reply #7 Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:16 PM

RedneckDude
I just opened it in SkinStudio. The taskbar image has some transparent area below it. This is why it shows that way. Only way to fix it is to remove that transparent part.

In other words, it's by design.

That was my initial thought, however neither editing the image so that the transparent area is cropped out, or shifting the image down until it is flush with the bottom edge remedy the issue. What else would I try?

RedneckDude
Reply #8 Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:19 PM

Hmmm...

Shimizoki
Reply #9 Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:24 PM

Alright, so I cropped it shifted the image down and it didn't work. That's when I noticed the margins area. (I'm new to Skin Studio). I toyed with those and its fine. Then I changed the margins back to what they were, and its still fine. So now I am all kinds of confused as to what actually fixed that problem.

RedneckDude
Reply #10 Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:34 PM

I vote cropping then restarting the skin.

Shimizoki
Reply #11 Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:46 PM

Well that's interesting, the line only appears on windows 7 it seems. Thanks everyone for your help so far.

Neilo
Reply #12 Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:03 PM

Nice to see you got it fixed mate! Be nice to clear up the ghosting though, it's annoying now i can see it!

Shimizoki
Reply #13 Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:42 PM

Nice to see you got it fixed mate! Be nice to clear up the ghosting though, it's annoying now i can see it!

Lol, sorry.

Neilo
Reply #14 Wednesday, March 14, 2012 7:04 AM

hehe, all cool, i'm using one of Vampothica's other skins atm, Novocaine.

roflmfaoo
Reply #15 Wednesday, March 14, 2012 10:23 AM

Who votes Vampothika updates Toxic for win7 ?

Vampothika
Reply #16 Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:04 PM

roflmfaoo
Who votes Vampothika updates Toxic for win7 ?

i dont.. i really hate that bitch.... oh wait, I AM Vampothika....

neone6
Reply #17 Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:15 PM

roflmfaoo
Who votes Vampothika updates Toxic for win7 ?
Yo Rolf... It IS for 7... and Vista... And XP 

RedneckDude
Reply #18 Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:28 PM

Vampothika
Quoting roflmfaoo, reply 15Who votes Vampothika updates Toxic for win7 ?

i dont.. i really hate that bitch.... oh wait, I AM Vampothika....

Now that is hilarious!!!  

RedneckDude
Reply #19 Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:32 PM

I think the ghosting is a problem with DisplayFusion, not the windowblind.

Snowman
Reply #20 Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:21 PM

RedneckDude
I think the ghosting is a problem with DisplayFusion, not the windowblind.

That, it is.

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