Most Windowblinds stop taskbar icons from appearing

help greatly appreciated!

Thursday, March 31, 2005 by edskii | Discussion: WindowBlinds

Hi,

Most of the Windowblinds I download stop the taskbar icons from appearing on the bottom right of the screen. Its quite annoying when I want to quickly open MSN Messenger for example.

Another problem I have with Windowblinds is the jogging of the screen. I beleive this is becuase the different window sizes users create or something (I read in the FAQ). I cant seem to stop this from happening.

I havn't had one Windowblind that properly works yet, . My PC isn't that bad! (its fairly new)

thanks for your time.

Help greatly appreciated!

ta!
11 Reply 1 Referrals
jazzymjr
Reply #1 Friday, April 1, 2005 11:01 AM
Are you using the overides to make the taskbar small? If you are, some of the skins will not show the tray icons on the right side. You can do a couple of things: 1. Make sure you have the "skin decides taskbar size" selected in the user overrides section in the Windowblinds configuration panel. Or, if you want to have a small taskbar, 2: If you have Skin Studio, you can resize the content margins in the taskbar. You would have to load the skin in question into Skin Studio, then do this:
On the left side, Click on Taskbar, then system tray, then horizontal tray. On the right side, click on Content Margins. Then change the top and bottom margins. I usually do the top margin at 2 or 3, and the bottom margin at 2 or 3 as well. You will have to experimennt. After you change the settings, be sure to save, then apply your changes. I have only run into one blind that I could not get the system tray icons to show with a small taskbar, even with adjusting the margins...it is an older skin, and might have something to do with it.

Hope this helps, and that I didn't confuse you.
MJ

edskii
Reply #2 Saturday, April 2, 2005 6:54 AM
thanks, the icons are now showing ,

though now I have to get rid of the jogging problem

Hazylunarrain
Reply #3 Saturday, April 2, 2005 7:39 AM
Try jogging a mile in the morning, and then again at night!

I don't know what to tell you. I have never had this problem with WB..... Just thought I would try to cheer you up in the mean time...

Posted via WinCustomize Browser/Stardock Central

jazzymjr
Reply #4 Saturday, April 2, 2005 10:45 PM
I'm glad you got the icons back again.

Call me dumb...I have no idea what "jogging" is in reference to windowblinds. Can you enlighten me?

Thanks!

firebrick
Reply #5 Saturday, April 2, 2005 11:49 PM
I have same problem with the 'jogging', when you open a window it opens mid screen, then you have to drag it up to the top.

edskii
Reply #6 Sunday, April 3, 2005 5:29 AM
it just constantly shakes, it only happens on some pages...

When I load up a preview/screenshot of a windowblind, it shakes/joggs

jazzymjr
Reply #7 Sunday, April 3, 2005 7:16 AM
Hmmm...I have never had that problem. Hopefully, someone will come along soon, and help you out. Sorry, I can't help on this issue.

werewolf
Reply #8 Sunday, April 3, 2005 10:15 AM
#6 sounds like the old Firefox problem. FF windows start shaking like crazy *sometimes*, when a new skin is applied while FF is open. Reloading the page, rollup/rolldown, closing/reopening FF... all those can fix it.

If you're talking about regular application windows, I've never seen that either.

edskii
Reply #9 Sunday, April 3, 2005 12:11 PM
well, Im not going back to shit explorer lol

werewolf
Reply #10 Sunday, April 3, 2005 5:24 PM
you don't have to go back to explorer. You can close FF then change windowblinds or you can change windowblinds and just reload your tabs.

Cavan1
Reply #11 Sunday, April 3, 2005 7:15 PM
It has been suggested on another thread that it may be due to one of the extensions you have. I download WindowBlind skins with FF and have never had a problem when apply while FF is running.

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