How to make yasb-bar always stay above the Windows taskbar?

[RicardoRyn]

Actually, I use yasb just to show which glazewm workspace I am currently on. Due to display instability, I still use the default Windows taskbar. Here is my configuration:

watch_stylesheet: true
watch_config: true
debug: false
bars:
  primary-bar:
    enabled: true
    screens: ['*']
    class_name: "yasb-bar"
    alignment:
      position: "bottom"
      center: false
    blur_effect:
      enabled: false
      acrylic: false
      dark_mode: false
      round_corners: false
      border_color: None
    window_flags:
      always_on_top: true
      windows_app_bar: true
      hide_on_fullscreen: true
    dimensions:
      width: "100%"
      height: 30
    padding:
      top: 0
      left: 0
      bottom: 8
      right: 0
    widgets:
      left:
        ["glazewm_workspaces"]
      center:
        []
      right:
        []
widgets:
  glazewm_workspaces:
    type: "glazewm.workspaces.GlazewmWorkspacesWidget"
    options:
      offline_label: "GlazeWM Offline"
      hide_empty_workspaces: true
      hide_if_offline: false

It looks great：

But when I click on the Windows taskbar afterwards, the yasb-bar disappears until I reload yasb. The glazewm workspace in the bottom-left corner disappears.

And I want it to always stay on top.
Can anyone offer some advice?

[amnweb]

Looks like the Windows taskbar has some flags that make it stay above all other windows, this is not available through APIs, or at least I can't find a way to do it.

[RicardoRyn]

Alright, but still thank you for your contribution.

[szzran]

The YASB bar is still there, but it gets covered by the taskbar. You can try making the taskbar background fully transparent using TranslucentTB. This is just a workaround and if you're okay with installing extra software.

[RicardoRyn]

Got it. It may not look that great, but I think it meets my needs.

Thank you.

[aschor]

Hi, jumping in this question. I made windows taskbar transparent with windhawk. Ok, I can see yasb at the bottom. BUT I cannot click anything on it, since it's still under windows raskbar.

I've tried "always_on_top" etc, to no avail. I Admit that I don't get if it's possible to effectively change windows taskbar's width, I did not succeed (to click through)

[RicardoRyn]

Yes, you're right. I don't know either, so I haven't been using YASB's click function. If you find a way, please let me know.
This is how I use YASB. It only shows some information, and I don't need any click functionality.

[shringlepringle]

The YASB bar is still there, but it gets covered by the taskbar. You can try making the taskbar background fully transparent using TranslucentTB. This is just a workaround and if you're okay with installing extra software.

I do believe this is a good answer, but if author wants to completely remove all appearences of the task bar, they can use nircmd to completely hide the taskbar (nircmdc.exe win hide class Shell_TrayWnd) and then optionally use windhawk to make the space smaller if nircmd still left a large transparent space

[cornusandu]

I don't believe there is any good way to keep the taskbar visible and YASB above the taskbar.

The closest I have gotten to achieving that is with Windhawk and a custom mod (check #591 (comment)). However, it doesn't work perfectly (more details in the post linked).

Or, if you don't care about interacting with widgets, go with what szzran said.

[RicardoRyn]

Yes, you are right.

I add copilot widgets now, and I need some interaction with it, and it doesn't work perfectly.😢