Hey there,
I'm quite new to rainmeter and don't realy have any experience with coding etc.
I've been dealing with the problem lately that I want to have a taskbar on all of my 3 screens. but only one of them should be always visible. the other two should be only visible when im moving my cursor above them. I found the program DisplayFusion and a few alternatives which fix the problem but they are all buggy and expensive (25$)
I was wondering if it's possible to to only activate autohide on 2 screens using rainmeter, because it's the last option I can think about which could work.
Any help is welcome and sorry if it's hard to understand what I mean. english isnt my native language. If anyone comes up with a working solution i am willing to give a small thank you via paypal (like 5-10€)
EDIT: I just read the "What rainmeter isn't" thread and I can see that my post doenst rly fit in this forum. anyways im not sure if there isnt a way or an idea which someone here knows, so i hope this post wont upset anyone ._.
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Autohide taskbar only on one screen
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Re: Autohide taskbar only on one screen
As you've figured it out, Rainmeter isn't created for such tasks. I can't try this kind of software, because I'm using one single monitor, but you might want to try any of the following apps: https://alternativeto.net/software/displayfusion/
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Re: Autohide taskbar only on one screen
Thank you for you answer, any help is appreciated.
I've tried all of those programms, but sadly none of them worked.
Do you have an idea where I could find help with my problem, since this isn't exactly the right place to ask?
I've tried all of those programms, but sadly none of them worked.
Do you have an idea where I could find help with my problem, since this isn't exactly the right place to ask?
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Re: Autohide taskbar only on one screen
I suppose you might try TenForums: https://www.tenforums.com/
Or google the internet. There might be some other forums, too.
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Re: Autohide taskbar only on one screen
Exel3838,
Auto-hide cannot be controlled per screen. This is just how it works in Windows. If you set it to auto-hide it will auto-hide everywhere.
As of myself, I always need to quickly toggle the auto-hide feature. I am doing that by double clicking on the taskbar using a small background utility called 7+ Taskbar Tweaker https://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker. I have been using this app for more than five years to set and unset the auto-hide quickly. Saves time and nerves from going through several steps to hide/show it. Maybe you will find it useful as well.
Additionally you can control the auto-hide feature via Rainmeter using an external plugin HideTaskbar by jsmorley https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=128&t=22711. You can read how it works in the link.
Sorry for the late respond.
Auto-hide cannot be controlled per screen. This is just how it works in Windows. If you set it to auto-hide it will auto-hide everywhere.
As of myself, I always need to quickly toggle the auto-hide feature. I am doing that by double clicking on the taskbar using a small background utility called 7+ Taskbar Tweaker https://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker. I have been using this app for more than five years to set and unset the auto-hide quickly. Saves time and nerves from going through several steps to hide/show it. Maybe you will find it useful as well.
Additionally you can control the auto-hide feature via Rainmeter using an external plugin HideTaskbar by jsmorley https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=128&t=22711. You can read how it works in the link.
Sorry for the late respond.
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Re: Autohide taskbar only on one screen
Thank you for you reply, better late then never. 
Now I atleast know, that what i'm looking for doesnt exist (yet). The Taskbar Tweaker looks quite nice, I got to say. Probably will be using it in future.
Thanks again!
EDIT: The taskbartweaker is absolutley awsome!

Now I atleast know, that what i'm looking for doesnt exist (yet). The Taskbar Tweaker looks quite nice, I got to say. Probably will be using it in future.
Thanks again!

EDIT: The taskbartweaker is absolutley awsome!