Sonoma language popups show up in Taskbar as blank windows

[zihotki]

Describe the bug A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: It happens intermittenly and I can't provide any steps to reproduce.

The issue is that sometimes ghost windows appears like it's on screenshot. It happens for multiple applications. The second window has no preview, when I click on it main window opens (the one on the left in the image). If I quit the app and run it again the problem disappears. If I restart the taskbar the problem dissapears.

Expected behavior All existing windows of the application should be visible in the taskbar and no ghost windows should be present

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Taskbar version 1.2.1
• OS: 14.6.1 (23G93)
• Chip Apple M2 Pro

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[lawand-dot-io]

Hello. Thanks for the bug report. Do you have in mind what apps other than Telegram have produced this bug? Sometimes these issues are app-specific and I need to know which apps are causing the bug in order to fix it. Thanks again

[zihotki]

Let me monitor for a short while, take some notes and I'll update the ticket.

[lawand-dot-io]

@zihotki thanks, i would greatly appreciate if you tell me which apps are causing this. I personally only saw firefox doing that.

[zihotki]

@lawand-dot-io I think I found at least one cause of ghost windows. I have 2 keyboard inputs/languages configured and when I switch the language MacOs displays small hover on the input. This causes a new window appear in the taskbar. This happens for some software like FreeCad, Telegram, OrcaSlicer, CotEditor, Notes, etc. But for other like VS Code or Edge/Chrome it doesn't happen.

Please see this picture for an example and see that A in blue baloon

If I disable that using steps described in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77248249/disable-macos-sonoma-text-insertion-point-cursor-caps-lock-indicator namely:

defaults write kCFPreferencesAnyApplication TSMLanguageIndicatorEnabled 0

the bug dissapears. And what's the most fascinating and amazing it's that the annoying MacOs switch input lag DISSAPEARED! Wow!

[lawand-dot-io]

@zihotki ah, if you mean that there's empty windows only when you change the input language, this is a bug that I am already aware of and have fixed in the development version. You can get that here: (link removed since this bug is now fixed in the official release of Taskbar)

You can download it and get the fix, or wait for it to be added to next official version.

[lawand-dot-io]

New ticket opened for blank Taskbar: https://github.com/lawand-dot-io/taskbar/issues/86

[lawand-dot-io]

This bug is now fixed in the new release of Taskbar, which is version 1.2.5