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Not sure why but since recently, the Slack icon in bottom right notification area (Windows 10) isn't visible anymore despite Slack app being checked in "Select which icons appear on the taskbar" section. Consequently I need to keep Slack open at all times in my app bar (which I don't want because it's crowded).
Any idea what's causing the problem here?
Additionally, every time there is a Slack client app update, you have to go into the "Select which icons appear on the taskbar" in Windows 10 to turn on the "new" icon. It seems this changes when the application is updated.
Update on August 5th, 2018. This issue has been around for nearly two years. I sent them this message on the 'help' issue I first submitted 19 months ago:
People,
This issue has persisted for over a year, and a Slack update this morning did the same thing - the icon is in the notification overflow window, instead of on the taskbar. If there is one application that MUST always be visible in the taskbar, it is Slack, and you keep falling down on this basic requirement.
Clearly, with every Slack client update, the operating system thinks it's a new app (with a new GUID or whatever the nomenclature is), so defaults to the notification icon being in the overflow. This is on you. No other application that uses notification icons does this after an update. None. Okay, maybe not none, but I have never encountered another one, and I am a super geek.
It also doesn't help, that after a client update, the old client runs until exited (as the taskbar icon remains visible), but on the next launch, the icon goes into the overflow. So it might appear to the uninformed that the Slack client update didn't trigger the problem, but it did.
Seriously, you need to mark this as important. It only takes about 10 seconds for us users to change the setting on the new icon, after we discover it's missing. But that 10 seconds is multiplied by the number of users who want that icon to stay visible, for every update. That is a LOT of wasted time.
In Windows 10, you have to right-click on the tray (the area you referred to as "notification area") to be able to customize which icons are visible, choose Properties, and then click the Customize button.
From here, click “Select which icons appear on the taskbar”. Enabled items will show permanently on the tray bar.
Here you have a step-by-step guide to solve this issue.
Keep in mind, however, that the you also have to enable the option to "leave the application running in the notification bar" from Slack, as pointed out by Somnath Muluk
At some point my slack icon disappeared from the taskbar, and it turned out it was in the hidden icons popover(triggered by the arrow on the left of the icons list). I was able to put it back on the taskbar by simply dragging it there from the popover.
When Slack is running, you’ll find a Slack icon in your notifications area. You'll see a blue dot when you have unread activity on one of your Slack teams, and a red dot when you've received a mention, announcement, or direct message.
Click your team name to open the Team Menu.
Select Preferences.
Click to the Windows App tab.
Check the Leave app running in notification area when the window is closed option.
From Preferences, you can also choose how you want the Slack icon to flash in the taskbar when a notification is received: Never, When left idle, or Always.
Note: The icon will stay in the taskbar if your preference is set to Always flash when a notification is received.
Reference: App icon notifications
I found the setting in File > Preferences > Windows App: "Leave app running in notification area when the window is closed" to be opposite of what I expected. When I unchecked the option, the icon appeared in the notification area. Once the icon appeared I could adjust the Notification Preferences to "Show icon and notifications".
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The title pretty much describes it. At seemingly random times while I am browsing in Firefox my Zoom desktop application will start and show the message
Invalid meeting ID
Please check and try again.
Simultaneously, a new tab will automatically open to my organization's authentication web page. Something seems to be trying to start a non-existent Zoom meeting, but I have no idea what or why. I am not signed into Zoom, Zoom was not running in the background, I have the setting "Start Zoom when I start Windows" unchecked, and I have no scheduled upcoming meetings at the moment.
I have googled every combination of terms I can think of, but the only potentially relevant item I found was a question from 2017 on Mozilla's support site:
JimWilliams
11/28/17, 6:15 AM
Every time I open Firefox it opens a nonexistent Zoom Meeting where it tells me the host has not joined the meeting -- takes too much time. Help!
There is no reason I can find that a Zoom Meeting window opens every time I open Firefox -- I even signed up for Zoom so I could make sure it didn't show I had any meetings scheduled recurring or otherwise. But having done that and rebooted -- a Zoom Meeting window opens asking me to join a nonexistent recurring meeting where it indicates it is waiting for the host to initiate the meeting. Takes forever (it seems). How can I end this problem?
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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer | Top 10 Contributor
11/30/17, 9:23 PM
In Firefox 56 and earlier, with the old "new tab page," sometimes a tile from history would trigger an odd behavior such a message that Firefox wanted to launch a different application. The approach to that was to remove any tiles that might trigger the unwanted behavior. I don't know if that is an issue with the new "Activity Stream" page, or whether you have that page as your home page.
Example old thread: Why does another application launch when I open a new tab? Plug-in is in Firefox and I can't get ride of it.
This question seems to match my own, but the reply blames an old version of Firefox (I am using Firefox 102.0.1) and the new-tab page (which I don't think I had open when this problem occurred). However, based on the thread's suggestion, I deleted every page from my browser history containing the term "zoom" and I'll wait to see if doing so resolved the bug.
(P.S. I apologize to the mods for the zoom-sdk tag. I can't find an existing tag relating to general Zoom questions. Please feel free to edit if you have better tag ideas.)
So far, removing any Zoom-related tiles on the new tab page and deleting any page from browser history mentioning "zoom" seems to have worked. The only question that remains is why this is still a bug in Firefox after so many updates.
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once I had installed Start Menu 8 . After one day I uninstalled it because I didn't like that. But after uninstalling, I am facing a problem in Win 8.1. When I log in, then first start menu appears and then I have to open desktop manually. But I want desktop to appear at startup. Is there any manual settings?
Thanks.
To boot to the desktop instead of Start
Open Taskbar and Navigation properties by swiping in from the right edge of the screen, tapping Search (or if you're using a mouse, pointing to the upper-right corner of the screen, moving the mouse pointer down, and then clicking Search), entering Taskbar in the search box, and then tapping or clicking Taskbar and Navigation in the results.
Tap or click the Navigation tab, then tap or click the When I sign in or close all apps on a screen, go to the desktop instead of Start check box. Then tap or click OK.
Source: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/personalize-pc-tutorial
Please use search engines like Google in the future :)
Right click on taskbar and open properties. Select Navigation tab and check the option Show Start on the display I’m using when I press the Windows logo key.
Press OK and reboot to try it out.
I implement a notify icon for my application by call Shell_NotifyIcon.
In the default, the notify icon display in the notify icon area instead of task bar in windows 7.
If the user want to show the notify icon in the task bar, he/she need to open the Notification Area Icons control panel item, find the application and set "Show icon and notifications" for the application.
I think it will be difficult to the user with poor windows knowledge. I want to implement this function that show the notify icon in the task bar in my VC++ code or installer. Is it possible? If yes, what should I do?
Appreciate.
No, this is not possible.
Windows 7 introduces a feature where notification icons can be hidden. It is an attempt to reduce the noise created by decades of developers dumping notification icons in the taskbar for no good reason.
In order for that feature to work effectively, there can't be a loophole for applications to get around it, because everyone thinks their application is the most important and the most deserving of prime real estate. Eventually, nothing is sacred anymore.
Raymond Chen has blogged about this very request, and provides some additional background info.
You just create the notification icon and provide the user with instructions in the documentation on how to show it permanently, if they so desire.
Why not just pin your application to the task bar? They can just click it and it will launch the application?
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This is a simple thing but I don't see it in settings.
So, I'm in my new Mac, working in a program like Safari or Firefox. I have a window in the background for another program, and it has a button. I want to click that button but have to click twice, once to switch programs and once to click the button.
I want my mouse to be "hotter" than that. Is there any way to do this?
Somewhat useful: you can hold Command and click to a non-focused window. The click will go through, however, the window will not get focus. It's useful if you have a partially covered window in the background, and you want to keep it that way, while clicking it.
BUT, if you have two windows side by side, which are not covered, it is UTTERLY frustrating that you have to click TWICE every time you want interact with them interchangeably. It would be really nice if there was an option to disable this "feature"...
This is called click-through, and guidelines for its usage are covered in Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. By default, all Cocoa controls support click-through and the feature must be turned off by the software developer. Some reasons to turn it off are covered in the Guidelines:
Avoid providing click-through for an item or action whose result might be dangerous or undesirable. Specifically, avoid enabling click-through for an item that:
Performs a potentially harmful action that users can’t cancel (for example, the Delete button in Mail)
Performs an action that is difficult or impossible to cancel (such as the Send button in Mail)
Dismisses a dialog without telling the user what action was taken (for example, the Save button in a Save dialog that overwrites an existing file and automatically dismisses the dialog)
Removes the user from the current context (for example, selecting a new item in a Finder column that changes the target of the Finder window)
To answer the actual question: No. There is no global setting for this. While it could be possible for an individual application to implement settings for itself, it's not something that I've seen.
Edit: To answer the other part of the question, is there any way to do this?, the answer is sort of. If you search for Mac focus follows mouse or Mac sloppy focus, you'll find some utilities such as Zooom/2 that focuses on each window as the mouse passes over. That is something that would annoy some people, but may work for you.
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How to dock an application in the Windows desktop?
I need the behavior of window like Google Desktop does.
Main window of Google Desktop can be attached to the left or to the right of desktop and DOESN'T overlap desktop icons.
Icons automatically move from this place!
If maximize another window it uses only available space and doesn't use area took by attached Google Desktop window.
It work on Windows XP as well
What API does Google Desktop use for such behavior?
The UI element you're talking about is an application bar, or appbar for short. It's created and operated by using the API function `SHAppBarMessage'.
For instance, to create a new appbar, you sent it the ABM_NEW message with a message identifier Windows can use to communicate with it. To position the bar along one edge of the desktop, you send it the ABM_SETPOS message. There are quite a few messages defined; they're listed on the page I linked above.