Taskbar clipping Chrome and Edge windows that are positioned with FancyZones at bottom of screen

[toomuchnoise]

ℹ Computer information

• PowerToys version: v0.20.1
• PowerToy Utility: FancyZones
• Running PowerToys as Admin: Yes
• Windows build number: [run "winver"] 19041.388

📝 Provide detailed reproduction steps (if any)

1. Setup zones.
2. Dock a Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browser (I assume others).
3. Open a webpage with controls at bottom of viewport (like a video on Netflix, or Slack chat window).
4. Note that the bottom portion of the browser is getting covered by the taskbar rather than using the top of the taskbar as the edge of the screen/dock area.

✔️ Expected result

Browser shouldn't be covered by the taskbar.

❌ Actual result

Browser is covered by the taskbar making it difficult to use elements aligned to the bottom of the browser viewport.

📷 Screenshots

Here are examples of controls in both Slack and Netflix in Chrome getting clipped when docked to the bottom of the screen with FancyZones.

Are there any useful screenshots? WinKey+Shift+S and then just paste them directly into the form

[enricogior]

@toomuchnoise
if you quit PowerToys and manually position the window in the same area, does it work properly?

[toomuchnoise]

If you quit PowerToys and move one of the windows it becomes obvious that it extends behind the menu taskbar. You can of course easily drag the browsers windows up, without resizing it and position the bottom edge against the taskbar. The result is that the browser is now exactly the height of the taskbar too tall.

If you use the "dock to the edge of the screen" functionality built into WIndows 10, it works correctly and the browser does not extend beyond the top edge of the taskbar..

[enricogior]

@toomuchnoise

it becomes obvious that it extends behind the menu taskbar

What I meant was: if you move a window to the same position as the zone, so that it doesn't extend below the taskbar. Then you visit the website, does the browser window extend below the taskbar?

Can you post a screenshot of the zone, just to make sure the zone is not already extending below the taskbar?
When you zone a window, FZ simply reposition the window for you, after that it doesn't interfere with it. It is strange that a website can resize the browser window.

[toomuchnoise]

If you move a window down to the same position as the zone, so it doesn't extend below the taskbar, then visit the website the browser window would not extend below the taskbar.

That said, after quitting and restarting PowerToys, the behavior has stopped and browser windows are now correctly docking, stopping at the top edge of the taskbar. I didn't make any other system changes, nor did I touch FancyZones.

One possible contributor could have been switching the resolution on one display to a lower resolution (1920x1080 - for a WebEx call) and then switching it back to native (4k). Perhaps this confused FancyZones?

[enricogior]

Closing in favor of #5935