I am experiencing different behavior with Skia Renderer in full screen mode. When I press ALT+Enter as usual, the screen goes into full screen mode completely. When I go through the SetWindowMode node and toggle full screen mode, the taskbar remains visible. Is there a parameter I need to activate to ensure that the taskbar is covered by the SetWindowMode node?
Thanks, good catch, fixed in upcoming. In the meantime you can simply use SetFullScreen [SkiaRenderer] (you need to enable the Advanced aspect in the node browser).
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Even with setfullscreen, I still find that sometimes the taskbar remains visible at first and only disappears after interaction with the renderer, such as a mouse click or touch.
Alt+Enter and F11 work consistently
one quick fix is also activate Fullscreen → deactivate Fullscreen → activate Fullscreen again then normally the taskbar isn’t visible anymore
Unfortunately, this does not work for me. I have now also noticed that even when I press ALT+Enter, the taskbar reappears after a certain amount of time. Automatically hiding the taskbar does not help either.
if nothing else works there is another hacky solution which is taskkilling the explorer.exe and starting it again with a batch script after setting the renderer fullscreen. we had to do that in some projects where the taskbar just kept reappearing.
@echo off
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
Thanks for the tip, I’ll try it out.
I’ve been experimenting a bit more. I can’t seem to identify any pattern to the problem. Sometimes the patch goes into full screen mode without any issues, sometimes the taskbar remains visible and disappears when I interact with it for the first time, only to reappear after a certain amount of time.
Will closing the taskbar permanently using taskill have any negative effects on the patch?
Could it have something to do with “bound to document” being on or off in the renderer, or is this a new Windows problem?
Not that i know of. We used the restart command for the explorer to force the taskbar to go into hiding in some permanent installations that have no user input devices connected.
Alt+Enter and F11 both call SetFullScreen. I don’t really understand what the difference would be when calling it from within your patch. It’s the same thing.
Yes, I had the same problem with Alt+Enter and F11.
What is the general cause of the problem, why does Windows sometimes overwrite full-screen mode with its taskbar?
Aha ok, that makes more sense. Could it be some other app which constantly puts itself in the foreground?
Unfortunately, I cannot identify any dependencies on the behavior. I repeat the same thing several times, open the patch, and it automatically goes into full screen mode after 10 seconds. Sometimes it goes into full screen mode five times in a row without the taskbar remaining visible, then the sixth time the taskbar remains visible, and the seventh time it does not. Sometimes the problem occurs several times in a row.
@envoy assuming this is on Win11 on a single monitor setup?
Yes, Windows 11, single screen.
If the taskbar remains visible after switching to full screen mode, the workaround described above helps when I execute it after switching to full screen mode. The question is whether this is a permanent solution or, even better, whether there is a solution that permanently suppresses the taskbar? I will continue testing to see if I can find a dependency.