Hide specific windows from Taskbar

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Hey there!

 

I've grown really fond of Object Dock - but one issue always remained: I'm using an animated dock at the bottom as a Windows taskbar replacement. I have enabled the taskbar function of OD to show me all open windows. Now to my issue: I now have redundant icons on my taskbar. If I, for example, add a shortcut to Firefox on my taskbar and then launch Firefox, I have the regular shortcut icon AND the icon on the taskbar. Therefore my question: Is there any way to hide certain windows from popping up on the taskbar of OD?

There has to be some way to implement this. Actually, not much is missing: If I right-click the Firefox icon on the taskbar part of my dock, I can choose "Dock Options" and then "Remove icon" - it then disappears. I can still access Firefox (which I always use in single-window mode) using my regular shortcut - which is just the way I want it. But, sadly, if I close Firefox and reopen it, the icon reappears on ODs taskbar... So OD doesn't seem to store the icons I have removed anywhere and forgets about it as soon as the respective window is closed... :(

Any ideas? To be honest: I'm pretty sure this has been addressed by some other users before me, but searching around the forum I couldn't find anything helpful. If there is a respective thread, I would be thankful if you could point it out to me!

 

Thx!

 

EDIT: I'm running OD Pro on a Win7 x64 notebook.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You have a FF shortcut on your dock, and when opening FF you get another icon for it on the running windows side of dock, this is normal and the way OD works. Which icon are you trying to remove, if the one for open window, you will only be removing it for that FF session, when open FF again it will appear again on the open windows side of dock.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Cavan1, reply 1
You have a FF shortcut on your dock, and when opening FF you get another icon for it on the running windows side of dock, this is normal and the way OD works. Which icon are you trying to remove, if the one for open window, you will only be removing it for that FF session, when open FF again it will appear again on the open windows side of dock.
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Yes, you are describing what I'm referring to. I want to remove the icon for the open window and yes, it comes back the next FF session. Even if this is "the normal way OD works", it doesn't make much sense: What do I need the icon for the FF session for, if I already have a FF shortcut on my dock!? It's redundant! The same with many other apps that only use one window (Outlook, WMP, utorrent etc.) and therefore don't need several icons on the taskbar to work properly.

 

There has to be some way to solve this issue!

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

There has to be some way to solve this issue!
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Yep, do not have OD show open windows. This is the normal way OD functions when open windows is set to show, there is no issue. If you have OD set to bring open window to front when shortcut is click then there is no need to have open windows displayed.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Cavan1, reply 3

Yep, do not have OD show open windows. This is the normal way OD functions when open windows is set to show, there is no issue. If you have OD set to bring open window to front when shortcut is click then there is no need to have open windows displayed.
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Oh really? And what about Windows Explorer windows? Lets say I have 3 different folders open and I minimize them - how do I get them back through OD if I disable the showing of open windows?

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Lets say I have 3 different folders open and I minimize them - how do I get them back through OD if I disable the showing of open windows?
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This is the main reason for having open windows show on dock, if you need it for this purpose then you will just have to put up with icons being placed there for apps that you only have one instance of running.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Cavan1, reply 5

This is the main reason for having open windows show on dock, if you need it for this purpose then you will just have to put up with icons being placed there for apps that you only have one instance of running.
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Well, it obviously looks like it and that really sucks. But hiding specific icons would be a feature StarDock could EASILY implement (as I've mentioned above)...

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

But hiding specific icons would be a feature StarDock could EASILY implement
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In the beta of OD2 they have added this for system tray icons, I do not know if they have plans to add for open windows.

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Cavan1, reply 7

In the beta of OD2 they have added this for system tray icons, I do not know if they have plans to add for open windows.
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Yeah, I'm using the beta and saw that feature for the tray icons. That means it should be even easier to do the same exact thing with taskbar items...

 

I'm gonna request that feature in the respective thread...

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

you can use this tool i found. It hides stuff on the taskbar.

 

http://frank1n.deviantart.com/art/HideAndShowTaskbarContentsV1-5-167358662

Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting xxinightxx, reply 9
you can use this tool i found. It hides stuff on the taskbar.

 

http://frank1n.deviantart.com/art/HideAndShowTaskbarContentsV1-5-167358662
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Nice app! Works great! But it doesn't help me with my issue since I want to hide certain apps, not all of them!