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Published: 2017-01-09 15:27:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 2517683; Favourites: 3805; Downloads: 1394852
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Description
Makes your taskbar translucent with blur behind it. Only works on Win10.CHANGELOG
VERSION 1.2
Added 2+ multi monitor support.Can not test it due to not having 2+ monitor,message me if you have any problems
VERSION 1.1
Added an option for disabling blur. Adding AccentState=2 to [TranslucentTaskbar] will disable the blur effect.
Basic Plugin Setup:
[TranslucentTaskbar]
Measure = Plugin
Plugin=TranslucentTaskbar
UpdateDivider=1
To disable Blur:
[TranslucentTaskbar]
Measure = Plugin
Plugin=TranslucentTaskbar
UpdateDivider=1
AccentState=2
Source code for the plugin : gist.github.com/arkenthera/7a8…
KNOWN ISSUES:
* Coming out of screen saver, skin gets broken and doesnt work until reloading. (Looking for a fix)
* after sleeping the PC and awaking it, skin gets broken and doesnt work until reloading.
* On multi-monitor setups, some people experienced their non-primary desktop taskbar reverts to original taskbar. I don't know the exact cause and I can't reproduce it on my PC.
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Comments: 822
Please make this a thing! I love your skin, but one problem I noticed is that the few windows 10 icons in the bottom left and the windows start menu are 'invisible' when on a white screen or page (google chrome for example) Is there a way to change this? Anyways, keep me updated on the start menu translucent taskbar rmskin
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That would be awesome! I'd be thrilled!
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Current window icon keep using the default color.
Anywas, it looks cool
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well done! is there any way to make this work on my second screen? It's only showing on my "main" screen atm.
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oh nevermind found it! great work m8 
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Brilliant tweak, such a small thing with such a big difference. Love it!
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oh, this is absolutely gorgeous! thanks so much for your work (:
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This is great! Wondering, is there anyway for it to turn solid or remove effect when a window is maximized?
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This is asked a lot,technically its possible but it would complicate things a bit. When I have free time I might give it a try and update the skin! What I recommend (and what I use) is a dark wallpaper so when you switch to a maximized window the taskbar wont catch your attention.
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I actually use a lot of wallpapers on a rotation. I understand it can be complicated with how Rainmeter works, and it's not real important, but if you feel like it i'd be interested!
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Wow this is actually really cool, I had no idea you could do this with rainmeter.
I'm going to see if I can add color to it or darken it to match the other elements.
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Yeah my main goal was to try and make it seamless with the same transparent effect start has and action center has, it always bothered me that the taskbar had no blur yet everything else does, now if we can make it work with the accent color then it would be perfect!
In the Windows Insider hub they said the reason for the taskbar not having blur was because of "performance issues", however the taskbar never really caused any performance issues, yet they decided to give everything else the blur effect except the taskbar, and that always bugged the crap out of me so for years I have always used transparency off, now that might finally change.
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Here is an example of changing the color of the taskbar (only for main window) to something greenish
i.imgur.com/OTbpB0K.jpg
Plugin:
[Rainmeter]
Update=10
SkinHeight=40
SkinWidth=#WORKAREAWIDTH #
BackgroundMode=2
SolidColor=0,255,150,75
[Metadata]
Name=TranslucentTaskbar
Author=arkenthera
Information=Translucent Taskbar
Version=1.0
License=Creative Commons Attribution - Non - Commercial - Share Alike 3.0
[Variables]
[BackgroundStyle]
W=#WORKAREAWIDTH #
H=100
X=0
Y=1040
[MeterString]
Meter=String
MeterStyle=BackgroundStyle
[TranslucentTaskbar]
Measure
Plugin=TranslucentTaskbar
UpdateDivider=1
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The coloring is certainly possible but a little tricky.You can do something like this,because the taskbar is translucent with the skin,whatever you render **behind** of the taskbar will blend through. So if you can render a skin in behind of the taskbar you can possibly add color to it.
Here is something I've done by putting a video behind of taskbar. With this simple idea, you can do much more.
gfycat.com/GiantAppropriateGua…
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Thank you very much. Now I can finally uninstall Start10. I had it only for this purpose. One less background app.
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