any fix for the taskbar issue?

[duck nuckem]

when playing the game, the taskbar is not disabled. whenever my mouse gets to the bottom of the screen, the taskbar pops up, and if i happen to click then the game loses priority. this is especially aggravating when I'm on high ground, Anakin, and I'm trying to aim downward at a target, and shoot.

it's incredibly dangerous, also, as the character just stops moving, and you can no longer do anything at all until you manually move the mouse to the game window and click back in, which can sometimes be pretty hard if your click on the taskbar happened to select another window, or even open a new program

any settings i can set to make this situation not be the case?

[Khergit Horse Archer]

y r u using windowed mode just use borderless window and alt tab

[duck nuckem]

this happens in both windowed and full screen modes.

and, alt tab? alt tab is not a natural thing for my fingers to gravitate to when they're sitting on the wasd keys (y'know, for moving my character around.) also, alt tabbing doesn't work that well; when you have 5 windows open, you need to tab through multiple windows, to get back to Palworld. not the best solution, when some boss is currently dunking on me, right?

but, also, I asked for methods to make this not happen, and you responded with a dubious method to maybe mitigate it when it does happen, instead. y r u?

[Sparkiekong]

https://rehack.com/gaming/how-to-hide-taskbar-during-game/

Could try some of these things. I play on one monitor in full screen mode so I'm not sure what you're experiencing. Googling how to keep the taskbar from minimizing while you're in a game plus your set up may help you locate what would work best for you. Most people default to full screen, windowed with an auto hide task bar, or borderless full screen.

[Lazarus {FATE}]

I've never had the Taskbar visible in full-screen ever.

Here's a 5 second Google search result......

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/fix-windows-taskbar-showing-in-fullscreen/#:~:text=If%20the%20taskbar%20won't,the%20Automatically%20hide%20the%20taskbar.

You should really try a little research. Hope this helps.

[DirtyMick]

Originally posted by duck nuckem:

this happens in both windowed and full screen modes.

and, alt tab? alt tab is not a natural thing for my fingers to gravitate to when they're sitting on the wasd keys (y'know, for moving my character around.) also, alt tabbing doesn't work that well; when you have 5 windows open, you need to tab through multiple windows, to get back to Palworld. not the best solution, when some boss is currently dunking on me, right?

but, also, I asked for methods to make this not happen, and you responded with a dubious method to maybe mitigate it when it does happen, instead. y r u?

I mean, you gotta expect it when you ask strangers on a game forum for help, instead of DIY. Google has every answer you would find here.

[duck nuckem]

Originally posted by 76561197972221177:

You should really try a little research. Hope this helps.

It doesn't, unfortunately, I already had that setting enabled but yeah I shall look further afield

[Khergit Horse Archer]

u have some other programs running or something cuz i dont ever have this issue unless its an old game or windowed mode

for example maybe you have a usb device intermittently getting connected and disconnected which will bring focus to the taskbar instead of current window

[Lazarus {FATE}]

Originally posted by duck nuckem:

Originally posted by 76561197972221177:

You should really try a little research. Hope this helps.

It doesn't, unfortunately, I already had that setting enabled but yeah I shall look further afield

Here's one for win 11:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/taskbar-appearing-when-fullscreen/ef571496-2535-4fc1-b62d-4e258c7a4f1f