Hi, when I have split screen activated on a widescreen, there is a problem when maximising windows to fill the whole "virtual monitor" space. On the left split it seems fine, but on the right the bottom of the window is hidden behind the task bar (this seems to happen regardless of whether I use the duplicated DisplayFusion task bar or turn that off so the native one spans the whole width of the real screen). It means that the bottom of the maximised window on the right cannot be seen or accessed (e.g. lower section of web pages, or the section with zoom slider and word count info etc in MS Word... and so on).

Hi, many thanks for the suggestion. I'm not sure what you mean by bounds. I'm trying the location values in "splits and padding"- this was already set to 0 (for the top box, named "Left:") for the left split however. I have tried changing and then back to 0 again but the problem remains... is this is not the correct settings, please could you point me in the right direction for the correct settings, or if it is, any other suggestions?
Note also, the problem occurs on the bottom the the right split but is fine on the left.
Many thanks.

Hi, it's still the same after reboot unfortunately.

I've got the same thing happening (though my taskbar is at the top) since I did a clean reinstall of my entire computer. I'm running 9.7.1 Beta 10.

Actually, I updated to 9.7.1. and the problem appears to have gone away. I'll keep you posted if it comes back.

For my googlers who are having this issue themselves.

I didn't want to be that person that found a solution and then didn't relay the information.

The solution I found was:

Step 1: Right click the displayfusion taskbar that your window is hiding behind.
Step 2: Navigate to "Multi-Monitor Taskbar"
Step 3: Navigate to "Position"
Step 4: Change from "Default" to <Your preferred orientation on the screen.>
In my case this was bottom.

The windows are no longer hiding behind the displayfusion taskbar, and you can maximize without them trying to hide.

Thanks for the tip @Josh. Unfortunately that didn't solve the issue for me (it is only hiding behind the main original task bar in split 1 however, not the DF one on the 2nd split for some reason). I've just had an update notification so going to try that and see if it resolves like @Chris' did.
Failing that, I have managed a work around using the padding settings by adding a 30 pixel pad (out of 1080) to the bottom padding setting (this seems OK so far for my general Office progs etc)... will update if I notice any issues on other things from doing this.

@JoshQuest1

I'm one of the googlers you were speaking about. The problem was driving me crazy, your solution worked for me. Thanks a lot!

This also fixed my issue as well, mine was set to automatic and I changed it to "Bottom"

Note for others reading this that this is referring to the position of the Task Bar, not the window, so choose whatever edge of the screen you're used to having your task bar appear on!

Thanks buddy, this is exactly the solution I was looking for. Thanks a ton for taking the time to help us out!

JoshQuest1's solution does indeed help somewhat with my issue. My Edge browser window was behind the DisplayFusion taskbar, which has been very annoying. That seems to be fixed by choosing BOTTOM instead of AUTO for the location. However, I'm still experiencing a very annoying issue that I thought was supposed to be fixed by 9.7.1. I'm using the Steam version, and full-screen YouTube videos playing in Edge still appear behind the DisplayFusion taskbar. It's makes it impossible to access the video controls. I've set Edge to be treated as a full-screen app in compatibility settings, and I've verified that "show taskbar in front of full screen applications when they lose focus" is still unchecked. Is there still no solution for this?

As I had stated the instructions from JoshQuest1 worked for me. however then along came an NVIDIA driver update and I was right back to having the issue again. I installed the beta and it fixed the issue again. Now the only question is if it resolves it or not. Hopefully knowing about the video card driver update causing it helps to resolve this problem if it does not.

Updated to 9.7.2 beta 3 (Steam) and issue persists. My Nvidia driver is 461.09 1/7/2021. I'll attach a screenshot showing the YouTube controls behind the taskbar in full screen view.

I am using Chrome, Firefox and Opera and it is happening on ALL of them. I rarely ever even open Edge but its happening on that one too. I honestly dont think this is a browser issue, I think its something closer to the OS and drivers than that.

Just to test this I downloaded the latest NVIDIA drivers and reinstalled them and using the Beta of Display Fusion it did not come back and hide the browser. Of course I only reinstalled over the same driver but if I get time I will roll back the drivers and go through the normal update process and see if it does it again.

Sorry if this is off topic but how do I unsubscribe from a thread's updates? Theres no unsub button in the emails and in my "Discsussions" tab from the menu there isn't any way to remove them from that list

You know what this reminds me of, if you take your focus off of a window that is in full screen, the task bar always stands out in front. Perhaps that has something to do with why this is happening? Maybe the software is not seeing that the browser window is in fact the live window, or is not being reported to Display Fusion that it is the live, active window? Hope that gives you more to go on.

@Owen Muhlethaler - No I am saying this issue acts like it does if you are in full screen mode in the browser and then say click something else on a different monitor. So say you are viewing a video in full screen mode and you click a folder or anything on a different monitor, the task bar is visible above the video and you cant get to the scrubber on the video or icon to reduce the full screen unless you either click the video, or click the browser icon in the taskbar to make it active again. So what I am saying is this problem we are having acts like what I described, even if you have focus (active) on the browser, it is still hiding behind the taskbar.

I lost track of the discussion due to being busy with work. In my scenario, I do not have the browser full screened (F11). I'm using the full screen option that's in the YouTube interface to full screen the video player. However, I just tried full screening the browser with F11 and get the same result; the taskbar is in front of the browser window. For me, it doesn't matter if the window has focus or not. Full screening either the video or the browser works as expected on my primary monitor that's using the Microsoft taskbar. The issue occurs on the secondary monitor using the DisplayFusion taskbar. Can also confirm that "Show taskbar in front of full screen applications when they lose focus" has always been unchecked.

Attaching debug info.

I have the same issue.

For now I'm doing a workaround.

Close DisplayFusion,
Set the taskbar controlled by Windows to autohide in desktop mode,
Run DisplayFusion

So at least the window maximizes and I can see the bottom of the window.

I would prefer to see my taskbar with a maximized window, so let me know if you figure something out.

🤦‍♂️
Oh man, when I saw this reply, I first lol'd and then thought "please don't let that be the solution". Well, for me at least, that seems to have solved it, and I feel like a total jackass. I guess the logs performed their function though. I don't remember why I set that option. It was probably a long time ago for some trigger that had something to do with a game.

EDIT: Restarted Explorer.exe and it seems OK now. 🤷‍♂️
Now there's a weird situation where the taskbar flickers and the start button flickers between grey and white. Also, the DisplayFusion start menu doesn't work. I've only noticed it when I have Edge not minimized. If I minimize Edge, the taskbar looks fine and works. If I use Chrome, the taskbar behaves normally as well. For some reason, it looks like the task bar is crashing and reloading when I have Edge visible. Oh, quite a bit of delay when pressing the start button as well.
EDIT: I should add that I did something a while back to turn my Microsoft task bar more transparent. It may have been a registry mod, I don't remember. I believe it was this: https://www.howtogeek.com/258681/how-to-make-the-windows-10-taskbar-more-transparent/

Recap: The taskbar flickering persists along with the DisplayFusion start menu button being mostly grey and flickering white occasionally. The start menu doesn't work when the button is grey. I only notice this when Edge is visible. I don't have Edge in F11 full screen mode. If I minimize Edge or use Chrome, the start menu button is white and works fine. I have a non Steam version of DF at work where I also use Edge, and I haven't noticed this issue there. I'll have to look to see if the "ignore full screen windows" advanced setting is enabled at work. If I reenable that setting at home, it seems to fix the taskbar flickering issue. I'll attach some images and another debug zip while the start menu is grey/non working and the advanced setting (ignore full screen windows) disabled.

The issue does NOT persist lmao. Apparently I've ended up with some odd and conflicting settings over the years and forgot about them. So I was likely having the issue with full screen YouTube videos being overlapped by the taskbar in Edge due to having the advanced setting "ignore full screen windows". I have no idea why I turned that on. Then I probably went and changed the compatibility setting to force Edge to be detected as full screen in an attempt to overcome the advanced setting I had forgotten about. 🤦‍♂️ If I turn off the advanced setting and remove the compatibility setting for Edge, it all seems to work as intended. You deserve a beer.

Was there a fix to the Windows (not DP) taskbar sitting on top of applications? I run Microsoft Teams, Discord, Chrome, and others in a 4 split monitor configuration. If I maximize the app within the split window, the Windows taskbar sits on top of the application.

Here ya go.

Removing all splits seems to resolve the issue if I maximize an app window. The ignore full screen windows doesn't fix it. The Windows taskbar sits on a maximed app within the split.

If I auto hide the taskbar it drops below the app.

Didn't help. FWIW, if I use "Move Window to Next Monitor" shortcut it is better but still slightly within the taskbar frame. Images are of two apps maximized within the bottom two splits.

Here is the log. Time is at the time of this post (2:43pm central)

It appears to work ok with a horizontal only split.

Here are the settings.

I'm on the beta of the latest and the problem is still happening. It drives me crazy. A reset of the taskbars sometimes corrects it, but mostly not.

I am experiencing what people are already mentioning in this thread, maximizing google chrome on my second monitor is showing it clipped/hidden underneath the task bar

Google chrome is full screen, but it is not aware of the taskbar mounted at the bottom of my screen

I am using the latest beta downloaded an hour ago today

Yes I am - is there something I should do?

That fixed the issue - thank you so much!

Disabling the option in Start 11 also disabled the taskbar grouping forcing an Icons only mode.

I noticed that restarting explorer allows me to keep the option enabled whilst also allowing windows to not go behind the Displayfusion (DF) taskbar.

I added a batch file containing the command:
c:\windows\system32\taskkill.exe /F /IM explorer.exe & start explorer
to my system and had DF call it as a function on system start.

For some reason, it didn't work calling the command directly from DF with parameters. Always exited with code 1. Batch file seems to work fine though.

Is there going to be a fix or some other type of work around with this issue?
I don't like to have my icons combined so use Start11 to manage stopping that behaviour.

Cheers

sorry. i was never noticed of your response. this workaround stopped working. restarting explorer no longer fixes it even temporarily.

Any updates on a fix for this?

I've found that disabling then re-enabling the enhanced taskbar in Start11 (which also restarts explorer) fixes the issue, but it intermittently comes back.

Just restarting explorer doesn't fix it like others have said.

Edit: If not, is this problem also in StartAllBack? Or are there any others that don't have this issue? I might just return Start11 and try another if that's the case.

It's not Start11 - I don't use Start11 at all, and still have the issue, just normal Windows 11 fully updated.