How to get a Mac-style dock on every monitor in Windows 11
Windows 11 can show each monitor's own taskbar apps; Glassline adds a Mac-style dock on every monitor. In Glassline Settings, open Dock and set With more than one display to Shows on every display. Under Show on each dock, choose Apps open on that display to show each screen's running apps.
Show Windows taskbars first
- Open Windows Settings. Go to Personalization, Taskbar, then expand Taskbar behaviors.
- Turn on Show my taskbar on all displays. Each connected monitor gets a taskbar.
- Choose where open apps appear. Under When using multiple displays, show my taskbar apps on, choose Taskbar where window is open. Open-app buttons follow their windows' screens, and pinned apps stay on the main taskbar. Choose All taskbars to show pinned and open apps everywhere.
That sets where Windows taskbars and their app buttons appear; Glassline adds a glass dock with icons that grow under the pointer.
Put a dock on each display
- Install Glassline from the Microsoft Store. Open it to use its menu bar and dock.
- Open Glassline Settings. Right-click the menu bar, choose Glassline Settings, then open Dock.
- Choose Shows on every display. Find With more than one display and select it. Each screen gets a dock that stays there when you click another screen.
For the basics of keeping apps in the dock, see how to get a dock on Windows 11.
Keep apps with their screens
- Find Show on each dock. It controls which apps appear when every display has a dock.
- Choose Apps open on that display. Each dock shows apps with a window on its screen. Apps you keep in the dock stay on the main display's dock until you drag them onto another one. Folders, Downloads and the Recycle Bin appear on every dock.
- Choose Every app for matching docks. All docks show the same apps, with the same kept apps, order and badges.
Each dock hides only for windows on its own display. Working in a window on one screen leaves the other screen's dock to respond to its own windows.
Move an app between docks
- Pick up an app's icon. Drag it from one display's dock into another display's dock.
- Drop it into the other dock. The app's windows move to that display with it.
For the menu bar on each screen and the dock that follows your clicks, see Glassline on a second monitor.
The design is Glassline's own, made for Windows 11, and Glassline has no connection to Apple.
You can try Glassline free for 7 days: on its Microsoft Store page, choose Free trial. Glassline is bought once after the trial.
