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Hide Sidewise in Windows Taskbar

Florian Schicker 12 years ago • updated by Joel Thornton 12 years ago • 7

would be a great option to hide the sidewise task in the taskbar of window cause its not needed to click on it

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Joel Thornton 12 years ago

I am working on a simple Windows-only .exe (written in AutoHotKey) which is  able to hide Sidewise's tray icon as well as fix the alt-tab problem.

The script isn't ready for release yet as it currently causes a couple bugs within Sidewise itself, most likely specific to minimizing/restoring the dock window and/or sidebar. It also needs a "automatically launch at startup" function. But the no-taskbar-button and hide-from-alt-tab-order functions otherwise seem to work correctly.

If you want to try the script out in its present state:

  1. Download and install AutoHotKey 
  2. Save the script file somewhere
  3. Run the script file to enable the taskbar/alt-tab hiding functionality
  4. To have it automatically run on startup, create a shortcut to the .ahk script file in your Windows Startup folder (Start -> Programs -> Startup).

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dsl101 12 years ago

I use Actual Window Manager for exactly this (and many other purposes). In my opinion, it's the one window manager type utility that I couldn't be without. Just for the record, other than beta testing, I have no involvement with Actual Tools, other than being a very satisfied user.

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Joel Thornton 12 years ago

I am working on a simple Windows-only .exe (written in AutoHotKey) which is  able to hide Sidewise's tray icon as well as fix the alt-tab problem.

The script isn't ready for release yet as it currently causes a couple bugs within Sidewise itself, most likely specific to minimizing/restoring the dock window and/or sidebar. It also needs a "automatically launch at startup" function. But the no-taskbar-button and hide-from-alt-tab-order functions otherwise seem to work correctly.

If you want to try the script out in its present state:

  1. Download and install AutoHotKey 
  2. Save the script file somewhere
  3. Run the script file to enable the taskbar/alt-tab hiding functionality
  4. To have it automatically run on startup, create a shortcut to the .ahk script file in your Windows Startup folder (Start -> Programs -> Startup).

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Florian Schicker 12 years ago

Joel, Thank you! Its a hack, but it works great :) i hope you have this feature soon in the tabbar! :)

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Tuomas Tuomitie 12 years ago

I don't know what's wrong, but every time I run that script, I get an error message like this:




Any ideas about what's going on? My other AHK scripts run like they should. I'm using Windows 7 64bit.

I want to get this working, since Sidewise is a good crutch for me after moving from Opera to Chrome.

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Joel Thornton 12 years ago

I believe ComObjCreate() is unique to AHK_L (not in the older AHK build). Are you running AHK_L? http://l.autohotkey.net/

Tuomas Tuomitie 12 years ago

That did the trick! Thanks. I wasn't even aware of that fork.

I got rid of the tray icon, but I'm still getting some strange behaviour from the sidewise bar, as it doesn't minimize with the browser window anymore. I think it used to do that?

Joel Thornton 12 years ago

Yeah it does normally; that's one of the problems I need to resolve before releasing this script "proper". Minimizing/restoring is a little flaky all around with the script running at the moment. 

Fortunately an enterprising user has sent me some bits of code for the script that should correct this.

Tuomas Tuomitie 12 years ago

After a couple of weeks of use, it's not turned out to be a great problem. The script does pretty much what I wanted, so I'm thankful to have found it. Keep up the good work!

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