/ModernBar

ModernBar makes yours Windows 11 Shell Simpler by replacing your modern Windows taskbar with the classic Windows taskbar layout.

Primary LanguageC#Apache License 2.0Apache-2.0

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Makes yours Windows 11 Shell simpler by replacing your modern Windows taskbar with the classic Windows taskbar layout.

ModernBar is based on the ManagedShell library for great compatibility and performance and on [RetroBar] (https://github.com/dremin/RetroBar) by Dremin. It also uses [WPF UI] (https://github.com/lepoco/wpfui) and FluentWPF

Requirements

Screenshots

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Features

  • Replaces default Windows 11 taskbar with classic layout
  • Native notification area with balloon notification support
  • Native task list with UWP app support and drag reordering
  • Quick launch toolbar
  • Start button opens modern start menu
  • Ability to show or hide the clock
  • Display taskbar on any side of the screen (even on Windows 11)
  • Option to display the taskbar, notification area, and clock on multiple monitors
  • Customizable XP-style collapsible notification area
  • Custom theme support

Included themes

  • System
  • Fluent Dark Acrylic
  • Fluent Dark
  • Fluent Light Acrylic
  • Fluent Light

Supported languages

  • Arabic (العربية)
  • Bulgarian (български)
  • Chinese (Simplified) (中文(简体))
  • Chinese (Traditional) (中文(繁體))
  • Czech (čeština)
  • Dutch (Nederlands)
  • English
  • English (United Kingdom)
  • French (français)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • Greek (ελληνικά)
  • Hebrew (עברית)
  • Hungarian (magyar)
  • Italian (italiano)
  • Japanese (日本語)
  • Korean (한국어)
  • Polish (polski)
  • Portuguese (português)
  • Romanian (Română)
  • Russian (русский)
  • Spanish (español)
  • Turkish (Türkçe)
  • Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)

Custom themes

ModernBar supports custom themes. To use custom themes, create a Themes directory in the same directory as ModernBar.exe, and place valid .xaml theme files there. You can also use the original RetroBar Themes With ModernBar, downloading them from RetroBar repository and placing them into the Themes directory existing in the same directory as ModernBar.exe.

Themes use the XAML ResourceDictionary format. View the RetroBar example themes to get started.

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