Monday, November 21, 2011
Windows 7 Taskbar - why the grey stripe?
Every so often, my normally blue Windows 7 taskbar would go greyish at the right-hand end. The extent seemed to vary - was this some graphical indication of the state of my PC? What was it telling me?
It's taken me about a year to work it out: it is a window that I have open on my right-hand screen (I have two, with the main taskbar on the left) which overlaps to the left screen. Even though there is something else in front, filling the right-hand screen, if any window overlaps the join between the screens, it will appear, semi-transparent, in front of the taskbar (but behind the clock text).
Not sure if this is something special to skinnyClock, which I run to get a clock with seconds showing, or universal. Hope it helps some other puzzled soul.
It's taken me about a year to work it out: it is a window that I have open on my right-hand screen (I have two, with the main taskbar on the left) which overlaps to the left screen. Even though there is something else in front, filling the right-hand screen, if any window overlaps the join between the screens, it will appear, semi-transparent, in front of the taskbar (but behind the clock text).
Not sure if this is something special to skinnyClock, which I run to get a clock with seconds showing, or universal. Hope it helps some other puzzled soul.
# posted by John Geddes @ 4:15 pm 
