Not possible to show system tray on non-primary monitor with start11?

So i just installed the beta of start11 for a trial run. I finally begrudgingly installed windows11 and one of the main reasons im a holdout is due to the inability to have access to my system tray/running applications on a non primary monitor.

As a multi monitor user I need this stuff on an accessory display, not on my display in front of me that is often obscured by something running fullscreen.

nonetheless, i had hoped this could do it, as startallback can. you just simply drag/drop your taskbar to your secondary display. Seems this is not part of start11 though?

is it missing or am i just being special?

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As you can imagine that is an incredibly niche requirement which we do not support.

The primary taskbar should be on the primary monitor. If you want to move it then set the primary monitor accordingly.

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yea, if it were only that simple that is the route i'd have been taking since time immemorial lol (changing primary monitor). That then forces everything under the sun to open on my accessory display. For modern and/or well written applications, sure you can choose the monitor you'd like to open on. For every one you can, theres two you cant however.

also not as niche as you'd think. that very request has roughly 17000 upvotes (most commented on feedback hub) but microsoft says they arent interested in adding back something they removed as per their most recent devstream.

multi monitor is becoming more and more common and i dont expect that to stagnate anytime soon. if youre using an accessory display youre probably doing so in order to have more real estate and use your main monitor for main monitor things.

If i'm running a game, and want to use discord and i close the window on my accessory display by accident, i literally cannot open it back up without minimizing the game to get at my tray behind the game window. absurd, especially when it wasnt a problem until MS made it one.

that being said, i entirely understand it being outside of the scope of start11. I just wanted to double check as I did see the ability to move the taskbar is in there, just not drag/drop and/or move it to another display unfortunately.

I'm trying to decide between using start11 or startallback and while it seems like startallback can do quite a bit more, thats not always a good thing. I'm a stardock fan and try to keep to these softwares if there are multiple options to do what I need.

I believe displayfusion can mirror your system tray on both monitors, even that is preferable. I'm just trying to limit un-necessary installs as this is my first format in quite a few years so I dont want to bloat it up anytime soon.

Honestly no idea why microsoft wouldnt allow the tray to show on both displays anyhow. I believe thats the way 10 functioned if you so chose. (cant check though as im not on 10 anymore and my pc that is, doesnt have multiple displays)

anyhow, thanks for the reply!

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