Aurora taskbar
by deskdash · v0.1.3 · 22 downloads
Taskbars install from inside DeskDash.
A full-width glass bar whose surface is a living light field: it dances to whatever is playing, breathes with your CPU when the room is quiet, brightens under your pointer and leans toward the focused app. A clock, a now-playing chip and vitals rings ride on it, and the chip opens a deck with transport, volume and meters.
- A light field that follows the audio spectrum while music plays and breathes with your CPU when it is quiet
- A torch of light under the pointer and a halo under the focused app, all in your theme's colors
- A 12 or 24 hour clock, a now-playing chip with album art, and CPU, memory and GPU rings on the bar
- A deck above the bar: transport, seek, volume and vitals meters
- Drag to reorder pins and running apps; window dots, live previews, a corner start button and an optional tray
About this taskbar
Aurora replaces your Windows taskbar with a frosted strip that is alive. Ribbons of light drift across it in your theme's colors; play music and they become the spectrum you hear, bass under the apps, treble at the edges. When it is quiet they breathe with your CPU instead. A torch follows the pointer, the focused app gets a halo, and a wallpaper theme recolors the field live.
On the left, the start button, right in the screen corner, and a clock. In the middle, your pinned and running apps float on the field: a click launches, focuses or minimizes, and several windows open a flyout of live previews. Drag an icon to reorder pins and running apps; pinning keeps an app in place. On the right, a now-playing chip with album art, CPU, memory and GPU rings, and an optional tray. Click the chip for a deck above the bar: transport, seek, volume and vitals meters.
Settings cover pins, the tray, the light field and the readouts; low-spec and reduced-motion machines get a still field.
What it can access
- time
Reads the current time from the dashboard's clock
- audio
Reads audio levels (for visualizations)
- media
Sees what music or video is playing
- system
Reads system stats like CPU, memory and battery
- taskbar
Reads your taskbar: open windows, pinned apps and the notification area
- mediaControls
Controls media playback
- systemControls
Changes system settings such as volume
Settings you can adjust
- Show pinned apps
On or off
- Show the system tray
On or off
- Light field
One of: audio and vitals, audio, calm
- React to all sound, not just media players
On or off
- Clock
On or off
- 24-hour clock
On or off
- Now playing chip
On or off
- Vitals rings
On or off
Details
- Version
- v0.1.3
- Size
- 19 KB
- Uploaded
- 24 Aug 2026
- Last updated
- 4 Sept 2026
Version history
- v0.1.3
- 4 Sept 2026 · 19 KB
- v0.1.2
- 1 Sept 2026 · 19 KB
- v0.1.1
- 24 Aug 2026 · 18 KB
- v0.1.0
- 24 Aug 2026 · 18 KB
