[bug] Start11 2.53 beta - Vertical taskbar showing preview images on hover

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I'm using the 2.53 beta and have my taskbar set up on the left side of the screen. Enhance Taskbar is on. I'm remote desktopping into this machine regularly and when I do, the taskbar behavior of showing the preview of the different windows of an application on hover resets every time.

To fix it, I go to Taskbar Settings (native) -> Taskbar Behaviors -> "Combine taskbar buttons and hide labels". It's set to "Always", to fix this problem, I change it to another value. The value then snaps back to "Always" by itself and the window previews on hover are gone. If I then reconnect my Remote Desktop session, the window previews start popping up again.

Let me know if I can provide any other info or troubleshooting.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Need little more information.

  1. Your Windows full version and OS Build number. Please use Winver.exe.
  2. The issue only happen when you remote desktop in?

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks for looking at it Basj!

1. Win11 24H2 (26100.4351)

2. I only use this machine with remote desktop - I can probably get a monitor attached to it if you want me to troubleshoot, but it's not trivial.

 

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

I don't think this was happening a month ago, it's possible that it started after a recent Windows Update.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Isn't showing preview images on hover the expected behaviour here?

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Hey Neil - I can't speak to the intended behavior, but it's not the behavior that I want or expect (nor how it behaved ~1 month ago).

To me the point of having the individual windows broken apart in the taskbar is that the previews aren't necessary. If they were all grouped together then the previews would serve great as a way to drill down into a specific one.

I just checked on a Win 10 machine, and there's some sort of logic that causes the previews equivalent (just a list of windows, no thumbnail) to appear on hover, but I'm not 100% sure how it decides whether to show one or not. It looks like if I click on one of the taskbar windows in a group (ie. one of the Chrome windows) then the previews stop appearing for the Chrome windows, even if I mouse out of the taskbar. If I mouse back into some other group of windows, then the previews start happening again. I can try to put together a video if that would be helpful.

Also, when they are showing on Win 10, they show vertically aligned, next to the taskbar so don't disrupt my ability to move the mouse to the taskbar item for the window I'd like to switch to.

As Start11 is right now without me applying my fix above, it's frustrating to try to switch between ~15 open chrome windows as the preview is horizontal and covers up a part of the taskbar that I'm trying to look at/pick from.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Here's a simple repro: Open enough explorer windows open that the preview is wider than your screen (about 10 for me), then hover over one of them in the taskbar. The tiling happens horizontally and obstructs the vertical taskbar. This makes it much harder to get to the items that are being obstructed. See image below.

Let me know if I can provide any other info.

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Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

I posted the same issue as the one in your last screenshot - I would prefer Wind10 method of the visuals stacking vertically instead of horizontally - if they get too tall, then turn them into a list - I don't know why they're covering the taskbar unless Start11 isn't factoring in the pixels being taken by the width of the taskbar and adjusting the frame for their pop-up......