Show taskbar buttons on: All taskbars -- Breaks on profile change

[thomvarmint]

Describe the bug
I have three monitors, three profiles - 1,2,3 active, 2,3 active only, and 3 active only. When switching from either 2,3 only or 3 only to 1,2,3 active, the windows 10 taskbar buttons no longer show all on each taskbar.

To Reproduce
See above?

Expected behaviour
whenever switching between any profile, I expect the taskbar button behavior to not change

Enviroment (please complete the following information):

• Windows 10
• DisplayMagician Version 2.7.2.1
• RTX3090
• 3x ASUS VG259QR with 3x
• DisplayPort
• GeForce 560.94
• Yes, Today

Reporting Logs
DisplayMagician-Support-20241220-2056.zip

[terrymacdonald]

Hi Thomas, Unfortunately that sounds like a NVIDIA driver issue. DisplayMagician is effectively a settings recorder. You store the settings pulled from the NVIDIA and windows display driver when you create a display profiles. When you use a display profile DisplayMagician simply sends those stored settings to the NVIDIA driver. There's not much we can do about this. What happens sometimes is that the NVIDIA driver changes slightly, and the settings no longer will work with the driver properly. The way to fix this is to grab the settings again, which can be done like this: 1. Use DisplayMagician to swap to the display profile that your having issues with. 2. Go into NVIDIA settings and check that everything is set up the way you want it. 3. Swap back to DisplayMagician and click on the Update button. This will grab the settings again and will overwrite the old settings we had before. Hopefully that will work for you and will fix the issue. If it doesn't then you'll just need to wait until NVIDIA fixes it, or you'll need to log a support ticket with NVIDIA themselves. Hope that helps! Terry

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[terrymacdonald]

@thomvarmint did that suggested fix work? Are you still having this issue occur?

[thomvarmint]

Still having the issue

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[terrymacdonald]

Yeah there isn't really anything I can do about it I'm afraid. DisplayMagician only tells windows/nvidia/amd to apply the settings it previously recorded. It doesn't do anything with Taskbars at the moment,.

I did experiment with trying to position taskbars in the past, but that code was WAAAAAAAAAY to unreliable to ever use in production. DM does still record the taskbar positions when it saves a profile, but it never actually does anything with that information.

The NVIDIA drivers redraw the taskbars when they drop into NVIDIA Surround mode. Do you get the missing taskbars when you use NVIDIA Surround yourself (without DisplayMagician)?

Have you tried to restart the Explorer.exe when this happens to you? This forces windows to redraw the taskbars, and hopefully they will redraw in the right place.

I'll keep this issue open for a few weeks to see if a new NVIDIA update fixes the issue.

[thomvarmint]

If I use NVIDIA Surround alone, it doesn't produce the error - but restarting Explorer.exe after changing profile back to all three monitors does fix it. I'll keep fooling around and see if there's another bit of software that is causing the issue

[terrymacdonald]

Hmm. I wonder if I could find a way for DM to restart explorer.exe and then make that a setting someone could use in the Display Profile? That might be a useful workaround, as I've had some other people say it sometimes doesn't work for them in the past.... What do you think? Thanks *Terry*

[thomvarmint]

only issue would be if I have explorer windows open, would it not close them?

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