There's no real way to do this within Swing natively, however, you can derive the possible location with the following...
GraphicsDevice gd = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getDefaultScreenDevice();
Rectangle bounds = gd.getDefaultConfiguration().getBounds();
Insets insets = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenInsets(gd.getDefaultConfiguration());
Rectangle safeBounds = new Rectangle(bounds);
safeBounds.x += insets.left;
safeBounds.y += insets.top;
safeBounds.width -= (insets.left + insets.right);
safeBounds.height -= (insets.top + insets.bottom);
System.out.println("Bounds = " + bounds);
System.out.println("SafeBounds = " + safeBounds);
Area area = new Area(bounds);
area.subtract(new Area(safeBounds));
System.out.println("Area = " + area.getBounds());
Which outputs
Bounds = java.awt.Rectangle[x=0,y=0,width=2560,height=1600]
SafeBounds = java.awt.Rectangle[x=0,y=40,width=2560,height=1560]
Area = java.awt.Rectangle[x=0,y=0,width=2560,height=40]
For my system (note, my task bar is at the top of the screen)
Updated
As demonstrated in my previous answer to your question about tray icons...
public class TestTaskIcon {
public static void main(String[] args) {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
Image img = null;
try {
img = ImageIO.read(new File("floppy_disk_red.png"));
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
TrayIcon ti = new TrayIcon(img, "Tooltip");
ti.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
@Override
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
Rectangle bounds = getSafeScreenBounds(e.getPoint());
JPopupMenu popup = new JPopupMenu();
popup.add(new JLabel("hello"));
Point point = e.getPoint();
int x = point.x;
int y = point.y;
if (y < bounds.y) {
y = bounds.y;
} else if (y > bounds.y + bounds.height) {
y = bounds.y + bounds.height;
}
if (x < bounds.x) {
x = bounds.x;
} else if (x > bounds.x + bounds.width) {
x = bounds.x + bounds.width;
}
if (x + popup.getPreferredSize().width > bounds.x + bounds.width) {
x = (bounds.x + bounds.width) - popup.getPreferredSize().width;
}
if (y + popup.getPreferredSize().height > bounds.y + bounds.height) {
y = (bounds.y + bounds.height) - popup.getPreferredSize().height;
}
popup.setLocation(x, y);
popup.setVisible(true);
}
});
try {
SystemTray.getSystemTray().add(ti);
} catch (AWTException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(TestTaskIcon.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
}
});
}
public static Rectangle getSafeScreenBounds(Point pos) {
Rectangle bounds = getScreenBoundsAt(pos);
Insets insets = getScreenInsetsAt(pos);
bounds.x += insets.left;
bounds.y += insets.top;
bounds.width -= (insets.left + insets.right);
bounds.height -= (insets.top + insets.bottom);
return bounds;
}
public static Insets getScreenInsetsAt(Point pos) {
GraphicsDevice gd = getGraphicsDeviceAt(pos);
Insets insets = null;
if (gd != null) {
insets = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenInsets(gd.getDefaultConfiguration());
}
return insets;
}
public static Rectangle getScreenBoundsAt(Point pos) {
GraphicsDevice gd = getGraphicsDeviceAt(pos);
Rectangle bounds = null;
if (gd != null) {
bounds = gd.getDefaultConfiguration().getBounds();
}
return bounds;
}
public static GraphicsDevice getGraphicsDeviceAt(Point pos) {
GraphicsDevice device = null;
GraphicsEnvironment ge = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
GraphicsDevice lstGDs[] = ge.getScreenDevices();
ArrayList<GraphicsDevice> lstDevices = new ArrayList<GraphicsDevice>(lstGDs.length);
for (GraphicsDevice gd : lstGDs) {
GraphicsConfiguration gc = gd.getDefaultConfiguration();
Rectangle screenBounds = gc.getBounds();
if (screenBounds.contains(pos)) {
lstDevices.add(gd);
}
}
if (lstDevices.size() > 0) {
device = lstDevices.get(0);
} else {
device = ge.getDefaultScreenDevice();
}
return device;
}
}
