Please fix the annoying bug of Menu opening automatically.

[RainDojo]

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[Cariboudjan]

Right-click on the Rainmeter icon in the system tray, go to Edit Settings.

Find the section that matches the section name of that skin (Right-click on Ctrl+Right-click if you're not sure, the name will display in bold)

Within that section, add the line:

StartHidden=1

Save the file and restart/refresh Rainmeter.

FTFY - This is not a Rainmeter problem, you should go directly to the skin's author.

[balala]

FTFY - This is not a Rainmeter problem, you should go directly to the skin's author.

Is the original question related to a skin? Which skin, if this is the case? Not too much details in the question!

[Yincognito]

Is the original question related to a skin? Which skin, if this is the case? Not too much details in the question!

Well, it's certainly not about a bug in Rainmeter itself, like Cariboudjan noticed, and the screenshot could represent a skin replicating the start menu (we're on a Rainmeter forum, after all, so it would make sense). Which skin or if that's the case, I have no idea either, but the thread - as much as scarce details were provided here - definitely didn't belong to the Bugs & Feature Suggestion section of the forum, where it was originally posted, so I moved it here instead.

Providing more details and have an intelligible post for the issue, on the other hand, is entirely up to the OP.

[RainDojo]

Sorry for my mistake, I thought it was a bug.

To give more info, I'm making my own Start menu with RainMeter. The Start menu opens when you click on the Windows icon in my RainMeter taskbar design. It works just fine except my Start menu is already open whenever I start my computer.

I'm trying to mimic normal Windows OS, ie the Start menu doesn't show until you've clicked the Windows button:

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[Yincognito]

Sorry for my mistake, I thought it was a bug.

To give more info, I'm making my own Start menu with RainMeter. The Start menu opens when you click on the Windows icon in my RainMeter taskbar design. It works just fine except my Start menu is already open whenever I start my computer.

I'm trying to mimic normal Windows OS, ie the Start menu doesn't show until you've clicked the Windows button:
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Oh, now it's clear, thanks for clarifying it. One easy way to do this would be to add a Hidden=1 option to all your start menu meters, so that they are displayed hidden by default:
https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/meters/general-options/#Hidden

Obviously, if you said that otherwise clicking on the Start button works fine to either show or hide the menu, I'm guessing those meters already have a Group option on them and you do use the !HideMeterGroup and !ShowMeterGroup bangs in the LeftMouseUpAction option of the start button meter to do it successfully:
https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/groups/
https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/bangs/#MeterGroup
https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/mouse-actions/#LeftMouseUpAction

[Cariboudjan]

Add:

DefaultStartHidden=1

To the [Rainmeter] section of your start menu skin.

This will ensure both you and all other users who ever use this skin, the skin will always be hidden when it starts. Then use bangs in the Start Button (a different skin) hide and unhide the start menu.

[Yincognito]

To the [Rainmeter] section of your start menu skin.

You think his start menu is a different skin than his taskbar? Hmm... could be, didn't think of that.

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So, to clarify, if the start menu and the taskbar parts belong to the same skin, then my advice earlier is suited.
If the start menu and the taskbar parts belong to two different skins, then the advice by Cariboudjan is suited.

[Cariboudjan]

If they aren’t different skins I would highly recommend he make it that way.

[Yincognito]

If they aren’t different skins I would highly recommend he make it that way.

Indeed, I see what you mean - less hassle with positioning to begin with.