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How do I change the background on the main menu? I have a plain white background, but your screenshots show a variety of colors and patterns.
Hi @rhawkins26 Thanks for using Power8. I suppose you run Windows 10. The logic for background in this app was always pretty simple: get the background window color reported by Windows and "glass it". These simple actions have different effect on different builds of Windows, even within the same operating system. Unfortunately, in Windows 10 the "glassification" does not work the way it was working before (or, more precisely, does not work at all). The transparency of the Start Menu ignores the same principles which all previous versions used as it's written from scratch. Because of this the color Power8 receives is default form background which in default theme is white. Add here not working glassification - and you get your boring white background. It works for main button as it shares the window style of the parent window - taskbar. There are 2 ways to work this around - 1st one (the correct one) is to have custom button stack for Windows 10, which will require significant time which I don't have. The second one would be just to render some image instead of white background which is doable, but you are the first one who ever suggested it. Right now I'm quite busy but will look into it when I have time.