Windows 7 Taskbar stays on top of Boxee Beta

[turumbar]

I have looked around the forums, and I can't seem to find the answer. I also never had this problem with Boxee Alpha. I am running Windows 7 Enterprise 64 and I cannot get the taskbar to go below the boxee window. I can put it on auto-hide, but the top line of it is slightly visible. I have never had this annoying issue before, and I have been running boxee for almost a year. Any insight that anyone could give would be greatly appreciated!

[cogadh]

Try hitting the "\" twice to take Boxee in and out of windowed mode, that has made the annoying task bar issue disappear for me, but I'm on XP, so things could be a bit different.

[stuartrichards]

Close all the open explorer windows or any other processes that put an icon on the bar and it disappears. Very annoying yes, as it didn't happen in the Alpha.

[judgeschambers]

The \ button fixes this.Or just click the boxee window and the taskbar will go out of focus.

There is another fix coming in the next release that minimizes Boxee a lot more than it currently does now. So, hitting the \ will clearly minimize and hit again and it clearly goes full screen. Plus, when minimized, the boxee window can be dragged to whatever size you want and it remembers it.

[kjoy82]

I only encountered this issue on my TV when I had the DPI set too high within Windows 7. As soon as I scaled it down a little more, I didn't have any further issues with the taskbar staying on top of Boxee...

Do you have your DPI scaled up at all?

[rickroot2]

The \ button fixes this.Or just click the boxee window and the taskbar will go out of focus.

Just installed Boxee 9.20.10261 (32bit, I guess) on 64 bit Windows 7.

The "\" method does not make the task bar go away for me, nor does clicking on boxee to bring it to focus after doing so.

[NYCityBoy]

Running it on 32 bit Windows 7.
Frustrating, as the new Boxee interface looks great.

Hope this is fixed with the next release.

[eirikask]

I only encountered this issue on my TV when I had the DPI set too high within Windows 7. As soon as I scaled it down a little more, I didn't have any further issues with the taskbar staying on top of Boxee...

This was my problem to. Had the DPI at 175%. That way icons and text are clearly visible on my 1080p TV. Reset the DPI to standard 100 % and Boxee is now in FS. An added bonus: Boxee looks like crap with high DPI. Now it looks the way God intended

How to fix (win 7). Type DPI into the search box on your start menu. Click "Make text and other items larger or smaller". In the window that opens, select 100 % (default)

[rickroot2]

This was my problem to. Had the DPI at 175%. That way icons and text are clearly visible on my 1080p TV. Reset the DPI to standard 100 % and Boxee is now in FS. An added bonus: Boxee looks like crap with high DPI. Now it looks the way God intended

How to fix (win 7). Type DPI into the search box on your start menu. Click "Make text and other items larger or smaller". In the window that opens, select 100 % (default)

I have confirmed that changing the DPI back to 100% fixes the windows task bar problem.

Not a fan of this solution though, because of my vision I typically have the font bumped up to 125% or 150% if I'm at one of the higher resolutions. I didn't notice this at work because I have a 24" monitor set to 1280x768, so I use 100% dpi there... here at home the only widescreen resolution I can set seems to be 1680x1050, and I need the larger fonts.

Ultimately I think I'd rather install boxee on a small linux box, but I'm having trouble getting it installed on ubuntu 9.10 (a conversation for another day and another thread)

[Segnaro]

Ran into this problem today too after changing the font to 150%. XBMC had this bug before too, but seems like it was fixed in 9.11