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Cairo is a customizable, intuitive desktop environment for Windows.
http://cairodesktop.com/
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minecraft (bedrock) doesnt show on the taskbar #619

Open hugie999 opened 2 years ago

hugie999 commented 2 years ago

minecraft (bedrock) dosent show on the task bar

Steps to reproduce

  1. open minecraft (bedrock(

Expected behavior minecraft (bedrock) dosent show on the task bar

System information:

Additional context im on a dual monitor setup so when i goto another window it goes away and is anoying

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acrinym commented 2 years ago

This is because UWP / Metro apps are not set up for using Cairo. You can use Explorer AND Cairo, but that kind of defeats the point of a replacement shell.

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I believe you can change Windows Explorer to be default to get UWP and Metro apps back.

Also, use task manager to open Explorer and you can still manage UWP / Metro apps using Windows' taskbar. Annoying but it works.

cosmicdan commented 2 years ago

Also, use task manager to open Explorer and you can still manage UWP / Metro apps using Windows' taskbar. Annoying but it works.

Apologies if this is only on Windows 11 (what I'm running), but simply pressing the Winkey on my keyboard will open the native start menu - allowing one to browse through Windows apps.

This is because UWP / Metro apps are not set up for using Cairo. You can use Explorer AND Cairo, but that kind of defeats the point of a replacement shell.

Not really. If you still use Windows File Explorer, you're supposed to keep the shell running - otherwise you will get worse performance. Cairo as a replacement shell is only a good idea if don't use File Explorer (or, obviously these days, Windows Apps) at all - explorer.exe is not just the taskbar and shell these days. [EDIT: This is more of an opinion given that Cairo Shell is not 100% feature complete, doesn't have complete internal handling of shell namespaces + newer WinAPI's and likely never will, that's a mountain of a task and isn't really necessary as a Windows-only shell].