Floating Taskbar

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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 

windowblinds
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

WindowBlinds - Free yourself of the default settings, customize your desktop.
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

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Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top


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) ;)

Quoting Neilo, reply 4
Just Display Fusion having issues with visual styles again.

Ayup. What Neilo said.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

(stupid quote thing acting up again)

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 3
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?

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Hmmm...

:moo:

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I vote cropping then restarting the skin.

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Neilo, reply 12
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.

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Who votes Vampothika updates Toxic for win7 ? :D

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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

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

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting roflmfaoo, reply 15
Who votes Vampothika updates Toxic for win7 ?
Yo Rolf... It IS for 7... and Vista... And XP  :hrmph:

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Vampothika, reply 16
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!!!   :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :P :P

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 19
I think the ghosting is a problem with DisplayFusion, not the windowblind.

That, it is.

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yup.

@Vamp.. :rofl:   Ohh and i had to clean the coffee off the desk after reading that!! ;)

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That would be why I didn't realise :) XP was the default style. I should have checked first, My bad.

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting roflmfaoo, reply 22
That would be why I didn't realise XP was the default style. I should have checked first, My bad.

no biggie bro :thumbsup:  but ill probably revisit toxic in the furture for w8 maybe??

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I guess we should see what Win8 has in store for us.

 

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The transparent line is due to a bug in the skin itself.  The taskbar image does not work correctly on a multi line taskbar either.

The area in the background with DisplayFusion is because it has blur enabled.  As the default OS theme uses blur on the taskbar they have enabled it and unfortunately there is no way for us to tell them not to do this.

Unfortunately DisplayFusion has some issues with any theme that is not Aero.  Some things are because WindowBlinds has specific code to handle how explorer does things and there is no way for WB to handle DisplayFusion in the same way, but others are due to bugs in the DisplayFusion theme support such as the transparent area to the right of the secondary taskbar.