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Effect Extends to StartIsBack Start Menu and Render Opaquely

Open D-Maxwell opened this issue 11 months ago • 4 comments

I have been using DWMBlurGlass for a few weeks now, and I've managed to solve most issues related to it, compatibility-wise.

However, the start menu I am making use of --planning to ditch it altogether eventually but not for the time being-- is getting its blur partially affected by this modification of yours. Oddly enough, only the inner search dialog is, not the start menu as a whole. Perhaps they are internally using a separate blurring method for that component exclusively ?

This isn't the case solely with DWMBlurGlass applied, and only came to be once I installed this. However, as the vanilla explorer isn't getting modified by DWMBlurGlass, I had to install this to fix it. Given that I use the Files app anyway as a file manager replacement, it wouldn't be too big of a bummer to get rid of ExplorerBlurMica on my machine ; but for anyone else out there who would happen to harbour this, I feel like this is a bug worth looking into, assuming it is able to fixed on your end.

D-Maxwell avatar Mar 16 '24 15:03 D-Maxwell

Can you provide some more detailed information, screenshots and StartAllback configuration?

Maplespe avatar Mar 17 '24 01:03 Maplespe

Can you provide some more detailed information, screenshots and StartAllback configuration?

Here you go. image image image

[config]
effect=1
clearAddress=true
clearBarBg=true
clearWinUIBg=true
showLine=true
[light]
r=255
g=255
b=255
a=200
[dark]
r=0
g=0
b=0
a=120

D-Maxwell avatar Mar 17 '24 17:03 D-Maxwell

It seems that the start menu search box is opaque even without using ExplorerBlurMica or DWMBlurGlass. Or you can try modifying the Explorer options to enable "Launch folder windows in a separate process".

Maplespe avatar Mar 19 '24 06:03 Maplespe

It seems that the start menu search box is opaque even without using ExplorerBlurMica or DWMBlurGlass.

I'm not sure what you meant by that. It clearly isn't as shown by the second screenshot ; the first one is how it looks whilst ExplorerBlurMica is applied.

Or you can try modifying the Explorer options to enable "Launch folder windows in a separate process".

I just did, and it doesn't seem to have done anything.

D-Maxwell avatar Mar 21 '24 20:03 D-Maxwell

It would seem that depending on the Blur Method setting, it may override that which is used by StartIsBack (and other applications as well such as Files), forcing one to either make use of an alternate blur method with lesser compatibility, or tweak relevant applications where such a conflict is present to use another blur method there.

D-Maxwell avatar Jun 19 '24 22:06 D-Maxwell