Gaming Enable or Disable Mouse Click-through on Xbox Game Bar Pinned Widgets


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This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable mouse click-through on Xbox Game Bar pinned widgets for your account in Windows 11 and Windows 10.

You can open the Xbox Game Bar to take control of all your favorite gaming activities while playing on your Windows 11 device.

The Controller Bar is a view of the Xbox Game Bar that allows you to quickly access games and apps using any Xbox controller.

The Home Bar is the bar at the top of the Game Bar screen. Your favorites will appear on the Home Bar for quicker access to widgets. Open widgets will show underlined on the Home Bar.

Xbox Game Bar includes a Widget Store that allows you to discover, install and remove widget applications. Each widget application can contain 1 or more widgets, as well as optional desktop applications.

When you pin a widget, it always displays on your screen over any game or app, even when Game Bar is dismissed (closed). Note that not all widgets can be pinned.

Game Bar supports the ability for users to enable click-through on pinned widgets. Click-through ensure that all mouse activity will go through a pinned widget and straight to the underlying game or application. For some scenarios this is preferable; as an example real-time strategy games often require the user to interact with all parts of the game, and thus having a pinned widget intercept a click is detrimental to the game experience. In other scenarios such as an FPS style game, the cursor is generally in the middle of the screen, and the games view changes with mouse movement.

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Here's How:

1 Open the Xbox Game Bar (Win+G).

2 Click/tap on the Mouse icon on the Home Bar to toggle Enable click-through or Disable click-through (default) for what you want. (see screenshots below)

(Currently disabled)
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(Currently enabled)
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That's it,
Shawn Brink


 

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