Folders in Launchpad
Drop one app on another to make a folder, then click its name to call it what you like.
Glassline
A menu bar, a dock, Launchpad and Search for Windows 11.
This desktop is live. Click the logo, open Launchpad from the dock, or make the dock your own.
Launchpad: every app on one screen
Click the Apps icon in the dock and Launchpad grows right out of it, with every app you have, page after page. Type to find one, drag them into your own order, and drop one app on another to make a folder. Close it and it shrinks back into the dock.
Screenshots in one drag
Press Alt Shift 4 and drag over what you want. Let go and the picture is on your desktop, with a preview in the corner you can click to open it. Hold Ctrl as you let go to copy it instead, or press Alt Shift 3 for the whole screen. It works over games too.
Magnification, window previews and stacks in the dock
Pinned apps and open windows, with a dot under the ones running and a count of unread notifications. Rest the pointer on a running app to see its windows, live. Drag icons into any order, drop in an app from Search to keep it, or a folder from File Explorer to open it as a stack.
Size, icons, margins, magnification and hiding are all yours to set. Right-click a pinned app for Launch Options, like your browser always opening a private window, and give any icon a picture of your own.
Dock style
Magnification
The menu bar takes your app's colour
The menu bar takes the colour of the window under it, so the app seems to fill the screen. The dock slides away to give it the room, and comes back when you move to the bottom edge. Want every pixel? The menu bar can hide itself too, and comes back when you point at the top.
Weekend at the lake
Glass that follows your wallpaper
Menus, Search, Control Center and Settings take the colour of whatever is behind them: light over a white page, dark over a dark game. The menu bar reads each side of your wallpaper on its own, so its text stays easy to read. Wallpaper Engine and Lively work too, and the glass keeps up as your wallpaper moves.
Search apps, files and settings from the Windows key
Search finds apps, files and settings, does sums, converts units and currencies, translates a phrase on your own PC into the language you prefer, and hands anything else to the web. With Everything installed, every file on your drives shows up as you type. Press Ctrl and Space on a file, or Space in File Explorer, to see it large without opening its app.
Wi-Fi, sound and brightness in one panel
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, what's playing, brightness and sound in Control Center, each with a page of its own: pick an output, set the microphone, keep the PC awake. Switches for Do Not Disturb, dark mode, airplane mode and your hotspot sit underneath, with a Hardware page for the load and temperature of your PC, in the look you pick: Classic, Aurora or Deck. Your apps' tray icons wait here too: click a pin to keep one in the menu bar. The clock opens your notifications and your calendar, with the events of any calendar you subscribe to. Try it.
Control Center
Every display gets its own dock
Each display has its own menu bar, and the dock can follow you, stay on one display or show on all of them. Drag an icon from one dock to another, and when each dock shows the apps on its own display, the app's windows move across with it.
Games get the whole screen
Start a game and the menu bar and the dock step aside, so it runs full screen the way it was made to. Set the Windows key to bring out the dock, and it comes out even over a game.
Hourly and weekly weather in the menu bar
The temperature sits next to your status icons, with a painted picture of the sky. Click it for what the next hours bring, the week ahead, and the humidity, wind, UV and sunrise.
Make it work your way
Folders, launch options, your own icons, notifications where you want them. Glassline keeps the small things the way you like them.
Launch Options
Right-click a pinned app in the dock and choose how it starts, like your browser always opening a private window.
Where notifications show
Choose where notifications show: where Windows puts them, or at the top right under the menu bar (Settings, Menu Bar).
Two months in Today
Today with just the calendar: switch off Calendar events and Today shows two months side by side.
Your own icons in the dock
Right-click any icon in the dock, choose Change Icon, and give it a picture of your own.
The logo menu
Click the logo at the left of the menu bar for All Apps, Show Desktop, Task Manager, Sleep, Restart and Shut Down. It can show a picture of your own.
Skins for Control Center
Pick the look of Control Center: Classic, Aurora or Deck, each with every page Control Center has.
Your taskbar is back when you quit
Click the logo at the left of the menu bar, or right-click the bar, and choose Quit Glassline. The taskbar and Start menu return exactly as they were. If Glassline ever closes unexpectedly, or you uninstall it, they come back on their own.
Glassline
$9.99 once. No subscription, and every update is free.
Get it from Microsoft StoreWindows 11, version 22H2 or later
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