My PYDT client used to show a cool red star in the title bar when it was my turn. Recently I monkeyed with some of the settings for task bar notifications, and maybe some other settings?, and now the red star is gone. I poked around in the client settings hoping to find a checkbox that said “Show my cool red star,” but no luck. The PYDT icon in the task bar turns red as expected, so I know the client is connected and all that good stuff.
Was this a deliberate change, or did I mess something up?
That was the problem! I had turned on small taskbar buttons in settings, and the badges setting gets grayed out when you do that. I guess you need big buttons in order to see the badges.
ahhh. Yes, I turn off all those sorts of things. So I have never seen the red star.
My icon goes red in the system tray, that’s what I rely on at a glance when the client is not in view. Can the taskbar icon become a red icon too? That would help me a lot.
I’ve looked into this a little bit and I don’t think this is possible, Windows provides the overlay icon thing to note status changes and it doesn’t seem like there’s a hook to change the icon itself.