Some stuff about ObjectBar 2

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* Well..there is no really easy way to explain this, but objectbar starts to behave extremely erratic if you turn on auto hide on a system with multiple monitors
To see this "in action", load up the vista-bar on a multimonitor system. Check to see that the secondary monitor is on the right. Move the bar to the right edge of the right monitor. Dock it to that edge and then check "autohide"
The bar will now jump all over the place

* If you have multiple monitors, it is not possible to resize the width of a Object Bar-bar if you don't move the bar to your primary monitor

To test this I loaded the Vista-bar, moved it to my seconday monitor and tried to resize. I could resize height, but not width. When I moved the bar to my primary monitor, I could resize both

* How do I dock a bar to an edge, and then have it not be "always on top"?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I have this same problem. If I put OB2 on the secondary monitor and set it to autohide, it jumps to the primary monitor and vanishes, and the only way I can get it back is to go into task manager and use that to bring it to the front. Also, if I turn off autohide and place it on the secondary monitor, the menus don't work. If I click on them, they change color, indicating they have been selected, but the menu doesn't show up, and I even checked to see if they're just invisible by clicking where the menu items would be if they were there, and they're just non-existent. I really need a launcher program with menus or tabs that's clean and simple to setup and use, and other than these problems this is by far the best. But I need it to be able to function properly on the secondary monitor.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I have the same problem. Its a game I've been calling "find the bar". If I run my mouse slowly over the edge of all screens, I will eventually get the bar to pop-up. Its not resticted to 2 monitor setups. When I disconnect my other monitor and reboot, it can still happen.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have a similar problem. I prefer it to run on my secondary monitor as well, but if you turn on autohide it shifts over to the same edge of the primary monitor, and won't un-hide. Also, drop-down menus appear on the far left side of the secondary monitor display. Running on my primary monitor all is well.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Here's another weirdness. I dropped in the virtual desktops tool, to see what it would do. It didn't do anything, really, so I took it back out. But now OB shifts every opening window to my primary display. This doesn't happen if I unload OB. Changing themes has no effect, uninstalling the Stardock Virtual Desktops application from my machine had no effect. Unloading OB stops the behavior, so it's definately coming from OB. I'm going to try ininstalling and reinstalling OB to see if that cures it. It wasn't doing it before (at least, I didn't notice it doing it before).

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
More weirdness - I'm having occasional instances where the configuration dialogue or the bar itself stops responding. I have to go into the Task Manager and kill the application, then start it again.

Any developers reading this? I'd really like to be able to stop the thing from snapping windows to the primary display. It's almost annoying enough to make me stop using it.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
How do you get the object bar on the secondary monitor? I run the program and it replaces my system bar on my primary and I couldn't find any options to get it to move.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Right Click and uncheck Dock/Undock
It should turn into a much smaller bar that you can then drag anywhere.