How to hide the floating bar during screen sharing?

Forum|Forum|4 months ago
October 7, 2025
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It feels like this thing takes half of my screen, and I just can't work and show something when it's there.

There's the "quick" shortcut 'ctrl+shift+alt h' (couldn't you add more keys to it?!).

However, 'esc' also pops it back. Naturally(??), 'esc' is a common key in my workflow. Whenever I press it, the stupid bar pops up again.

I think I recall an auto-hide function, where only when the cursor was on the top edge of the screen, the bar would show, like it happens in common remote share screens like "remote desktop."

Who's the genius responsible for the new design??

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storyhub

Community Super Champion | Customer

You have not stated what device is being used so I can only offer a possibility. If global short cut keys are a workflow issue consider adding a second display using a display emulator or an actual display device.

If this works please click accept as a solution.

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zoharl3Author

Newcomer

I'm on win11, laptop.

I'm not buying another screen to fill with zoom trash.

Can you suggest a specific emulator and describe the workflow? I hope it would be more reasonable than getting a physical screen.

But I'm not clear; this is something basic. Isn't there anyone from zoom support here?

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MeZoom

Newcomer

I agree with Newcomer - I had bother with the large toolbar covering parts of the window I was trying to share (causing black squares to be shown to participants), and was amazed when I found that the long Ctrl-Alt-Shift-H removed it ... but the commonly used Escape has caused me problems when it re-appears.

I have also had problems with the icon/button for the write toolbar, which can be dragged - but only to one of the 4 corners of the shared window, causing black squares to appear on the participants screens.

This is using Win11 on a laptop.

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Xelium23

Newcomer

This is a known problem which has been going on for YEARS and NOTHING is done about it.