Always on Top

[anythingwithawire]

crutkas: Should look at #49 also for additional feature implementation idea

And #641 for transparency

[ghost]

I don't think title bar is a good route since there are a lot of apps that draw it custom.

I think thst route should remain wherever it can.

[Erikum]

Don't tell anybody... Always On Top will arrive soon ;)

It has been almost 2 years now, "soon" must mean somthing else in some parts of the world...

[cheskote]

What I use for this function is a tiny program called TurboTop (Savard Software), from 2016, but still works great.

Maybe you can check it out for inspiration or ideas.

[franky920920]

What I use for this function is a tiny program called TurboTop (Savard Software), from 2016, but still works great.

Maybe you can check it out for inspiration or ideas.

@cheskote Thanks for your advice. We're currently working on this feature in #14360. Hope we can release this soon! 😄

[Jay-o-Way]

I see the (default) hotkey is Ctrl+Space. Found a site that lists about 195 uses in different programs that may use this combination. I predict there will be many issues from people that are surprised that their usual hotkey doesn't work (as expected). Will it be customizable? And should we have the toy off to start with?

[crutkas]

We will not ship with that default key

[fm-sys]

As a workaround, you can use a small helper application called always-on-top.exe, which is a third-party program that allows you to keep windows on top using Ctrl+Space. It's only around 200kB large and seem to run fine in my tests. (No warranty though ;-))

I have it in my autostart and don't want to ever miss it... :)

https://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/keep-window-always-on-top/5213/ Direct download link: https://www.labnol.org/files/always-on-top.zip

[ghost]

Is there a version of this with a more native looking icon? One with better support for Win10's light and dark themes

[crutkas]

We added in 0.53. Head over to https://aka.ms/installpowertoys to try it out

[ts-mz]

Thanks! Extremely useful! This is probably not a bug and you're aware of it, but just in case: the added window border doesn't have rounded corners on Win 11.

[Aaron-Junker]

Thanks! Extremely useful! This is probably not a bug and you're aware of it, but just in case: the added window border doesn't have rounded corners on Win 11.

We're aware of it. #15284

[orbitaleccentric]

ok...

On a hunch I started Notepad++ as administrator and lo! always on top worked.

I then ran SketchUp as administrator and always on top also worked.

Notepad too.

So does this mean that I have to run all my programs as administrator?

Has this always been the intended behaviour of always on top?

oops! wrong topic