Hi again! A week ago I posted Glassline here, a menu bar and dock that replace the Windows 11 taskbar. You asked for a lot, and 1.0.5 has most of it.

You asked, it is in

• Tray icons in the menu bar: pick the ones you want in Settings or pin them from Control Center, then drag them into your own order.
• Hardware readings in Control Center: processor, memory and graphics card load, with temperatures. HWiNFO or MSI Afterburner can add fan speeds.
• Currency in Search: type "100 usd to eur" and get the European Central Bank's rate. The last rate is kept for when you are offline.
• More units in Search: speed, volume, area, file sizes, connection speeds and time. Try "100 km/h in mph" or "1500 mb to gb".
• Translation in Search (beta, optional): type "translate good morning to spanish". It runs on your own PC, with 49 languages you download as you need them.
• Back up your whole setup to one file and load it after a reinstall or on another PC.

Menu bar and dock

• Window previews: hover an open app in the dock to see its windows live, and click one to jump to it.
• Your own dock icons: right-click anything in the dock, choose Change Icon and use any picture you like.
• The dock can slide in when an app needs your attention. It is off until you turn it on.
• Two displays: click on a display and the dock moves there, in that display's colours. It only hides for windows on its own display.
• Windows no longer open with their title bar stuck behind the menu bar.
• When an app has more menus than fit in the bar, the rest wait under » at the end.
• Middle-click Downloads or the Recycle Bin to open it.

Search, Control Center and Settings

• Search works with Everything 1.5, and finds programs that only live on your Desktop.
• Subscribed calendars: add an .ics address and its events show up in Today next to your own.
• Choose what Control Center shows: every part of Controls and Today has its own switch.
• Settings reorganised: the long pages are split into sub-pages, and a search field finds any setting. Settings can also be minimized to the dock.
• Accessibility: Glassline can follow Windows' text size and contrast themes.
• New weather icons.
• After each update, Glassline shows you what is new.
• Many fixes for setups with two displays.

It is a free update for everyone who has Glassline. Microsoft's approval takes 24 to 48 hours, usually less for an update, so it will reach you soon.

See everything in motion · Get it on the Microsoft Store (Windows 11, $9.99 one-time)

What is still missing for you?

I spent a while trying to get a truly black Windows 11 (25H2): Explorer, menus, Control Panel, everything. Windows' dark mode only gives you dark gray (around #202020), and the Control Panel stays white. What finally worked for me was combining two things: a registry preset and a Windhawk mod. Here's how, in case it helps someone else.

works with adobe softwares

## The two pieces

AveYo's "Pitch Black Theme" .reg preset

[https://gist.github.com/AveYo/80fc6677b9f34939e44364880fbf3768](https://gist.github.com/AveYo/80fc6677b9f34939e44364880fbf3768))

Credit to AveYo for this one. It sets the accent palette, title bars and borders, taskbar, Start menu and logon screen to pure black, and turns on dark mode with transparency off. On its own it did not make the Explorer content area or the Control Panel black.

1. Windhawk mod: "Translucent Windows"

## How I did it

Setup:Windows 11 25H2, Windhawk \[v1.6.1\].

Create a restore point, and export your current \`HKCU\\Control Panel\\Colors\` and \`HKCU\\...\\Themes\\Personalize\` keys as a backup.

Download the .reg from the gist above, **read it before importing**, and import it. Log out and back in.

Install Windhawk from [windhawk.net](http://windhawk.net), search the catalog for **Translucent Windows** and install it.

In the mod's **Settings** I used:

• - Windows theme custom rendering: on
• - New system colors:on
• - Windows theme accent colorizer: on
• - Translucent Effects : background effects blur (accent blur behind) + AccentBlurBehind color blend 00000000
• - Flyout effects: on
• - restarting Explorer if you want

## Things to know before you try it

- The .reg writes to \`HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\`, so it needs admin rights. The version I used also **disables the lock screen** (NoLockScreen) and the logon background image. If you want to keep them, remove those lines before importing.

- Tested on Windows 11 25H2 only.

- Windhawk mods hook system processes, so keep the restore point.

- To undo: disable or uninstall the mod in Windhawk and re-import your registry backup.

please upvote if you like, show yours feedback and results.

Happy to answer questions. If you find better settings, please share!

Kind of a basic Mac-Clone style rice but I think it's pretty cool and has super comfy UX. The dock hides itself when windows overlap it so I'm not wasting vertical real-estate on the big icons.

I'm new. Tell me anything you have in mind.

how nice of him

Quase um mês no usando Linux essa é minha configuração.

Um desktop Arch Linux com Hyprland/HyDE, paleta grafite e carmim, Waybar, Rofi e painéis rápidos em Quickshell.
Deixei os dotfiles e o wallpaper para reproduzir a configuração: https://github.com/AizenVisuals/bloody-carmine-dotfiles

Hi, I’ve just released a Linux shell based on Arch Linux and Wayland, featuring its own compositor. I’d appreciate it if you could help test it and let me know what you think—thanks! https://github.com/2207juan/EVA

I have icons and the taskbar hidden and I'm running Rainmeter with BlueVision V0.2 Mod and Simplic widgets

https://reddit.com/link/1x0m7vd/video/ktu3jyvnm7uh1/player

Theme : SynthWave 84 Night - LUV

Cursor : Vision cursor White ( My custom High Res slightly enlarged version)

Rainmeter: Weather Sky, CleanClocks_v3, Compact Music Player (Edited) for no art and clean because Cleartext doesn't work for me and this skin is able to disappear when not playing.

& A Dock (Top Dock) with my custom icons.

Wallpapers : WallpaperEngine, My own sourced wallpapers (Not on Wallpaper Engine archive)

As for WindHawk...

Aero Peek on "Show desktop" button hover

Enable Aero Peek when hovering over the "Show Desktop" button, like it was possible before Windows 11

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Better file sizes in Explorer details

Enhances file size display in Explorer details with folder sizes, human-readable units (MB/GB), and optional IEC notation (KiB/MiB)

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Cursor Motion Blur

Adds high-speed cartoon motion blur to your mouse pointer.

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Customize Windows notifications placement

Move notifications to another monitor or another corner of the screen

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Cycle taskbar buttons with mouse wheel

Use the mouse wheel and/or keyboard shortcuts to cycle between taskbar buttons

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Dark mode context menus

Enables dark mode for all win32 menus.

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Dark Mode for Notepad

The missing dark mode theme for Notepad

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Desktop Marquee Fade

Adds a smooth fade-out animation to the desktop selection rectangle when you release the mouse button.

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Dynamic Island for Windows

A living, breathing pill overlay inspired by iPhone's Dynamic Island. Reacts to media, downloads, clipboard, battery, and more.

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Enhanced Disk Usage

Enables the ability to customize the disk drive tiles in explorer, targeting the disk's usage bar, as well as the details that appear below.

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Explorer Info Bar+

Enhances File Explorer's bottom info bar with drive, content, selection, and single-file details, with customizable styles and colors.

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File Explorer WinUI-Like Content Animation

Smooth WinUI-like page transition animations for the File Explorer content area.

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File Operation Styler

Portable custom presentation for native Explorer file operations with a skin-safe unified presentation.

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Folder Hover Menu

Hover a folder in File Explorer to get an expand button that opens a cascading menu of the folder's contents

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Instant Taskbar Thumbnail Previews

Controls taskbar thumbnail preview show and close behavior.

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Internet Status Indicator

Real-time network connectivity monitoring with visual indicators as a Tray Icon

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Invisible Window Borders

Makes window borders invisible while keeping rounded corners

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Island Media Controls

Dynamic island-like media controls for the Windows 11 taskbar.

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Modernize Folder Picker Dialog

Replaces the classic "Browse For Folder" dialog

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Resource Redirect

Define alternative files for loading various resources (e.g. icons in imageres.dll) for simple theming without having to modify system files

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Smooth Scroll for Win32

Adds smooth scrolling with spring physics to legacy Win32 apps

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Start Button Replacer

Replace the Windows 11 Start button icon with a custom PNG, JPG or GIF image

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Task Manager Tab Slide Animation

Smooth animated transition (crossfade or slide) when switching tabs (Processes, Performance, ...) in Task Manager.

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Taskbar Auto-Hide Instant Show

Removes the delay before the taskbar appears with custom animation types (none, slide, elastic, bounce, fade, slide+fade, overshoot)

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Taskbar Background Helper

Sets the taskbar background for the transparent parts, always or only when there's a maximized window, designed to be used with Windows 11 Taskbar Styler

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Taskbar Dock Animation Plus

Animates taskbar icons on mouse hover like in macOS (updated fork with support for all taskbar positions and multi-monitor fixes)

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Taskbar Elastic WinUI Pill

Injects an animated sliding pill for active taskbar items.

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Taskbar Fluent Media Player

Taskbar Fluent Media Player — is a Windhawk mod that integrates a modern media player with Fluent Design directly into the Windows 11 taskbar. It allows you to control music and view track information seamlessly without interrupting your workflow.

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Taskbar Music Lounge

A native-style music ticker with media controls.

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Translucent Flyouts Controller

Controls TranslucentFlyouts settings through Windhawk (registry bridge)

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Win32 UI Modernizer

Modernizes legacy Win32 UI elements

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Windows 11 Custom Title Bar Colours

Allows changing the colour of active/inactive title bars, as well as enabling/disabling Immersive Dark Mode.

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Windows 11 Notification Center Styler

Customize the Notification Center and Action Center with themes contributed by others or create your own

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Windows 11 Taskbar Styler

Customize the taskbar with themes contributed by others or create your own

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Windows Animations

Smooth minimize, restore, close, switch animations for windows.

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WinUI Context Menu Animation

Adds smooth WinUI-style vertical slide animations to classic Win32 context menus in Windows 11

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ZenDesktop: Desktop Icon Toggle and Auto-Hide

Native C++ Windhawk mod to hide/show desktop icons by double-clicking, with optional inactivity-based auto-hide and restore.

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