Losing DCS focus in VR due to taskbar unhiding itself

[TAW_Impalor]

OK, maybe it's just me, so the post is in wish list and not in bugs. My PC screen is 1920x1080 and I like my taskbar to auto hide at the bottom. Some events, like Oculus notifications, cause the taskbar to sometimes unhide when I'm in VR. This makes the low placed buttons of DCS interface unclickable - like Exit/New Sever/Join buttons and the Briefing button in MP. When I try to click them DCS loses focus and they grey-out. 'Cursor confined to game window' is ON, but cannot prevent it, as the taskbar becomes on top of the game window!

 

Well, actually there remains a narrow margin at the top of the buttons maybe one pixel wide that I can still click, but this is still very annoying. And I usually don't even turn my monitor/TV on to see the taskbar and make it hide again. Been like this since I remember myself, both in Windows 7 and 10. I don't really understand why having mouse cursor at the center of my view in VR causes it to click the taskbar, but it does. Must me some quick hack how you operate the menus from VR.

 

So, my suggestion is, since DCS cannot seem to stay on top of the taskbar, move those UI buttons a few pixels higher and make the lower part of the UI always static.

[ignition22]

Do you use Alt + Enter when in VR mode to full screen and prevent DCS from losing focus? I'm guessing maybe you don't know that it is a thing.

[TAW_Impalor]

Yes, Alt + Enter prevents this problem. Is there no technical possibility to launch DCS in full screen by default? With no monitor and visible keyboard in VR it is hard for me to remember doing that.