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ALTaleX531 / TranslucentFlyouts

Translucent effect for most of the win32 flyouts
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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Installation succeeds but it doesn't work (Win 11) - does this rely on inbuilt Transparency Effects? #44

Closed e-t-l closed 1 year ago

e-t-l commented 1 year ago

Does this project utilize the same "Transparency effects" that are in Windows Settings > Personalization > Colors? Because if that's the case, then that is probably why this isn't working on my system; I've had issues with getting Windows Transparency Effects to work (see this thread if you're curious about the specific issue: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/3813385)

However, I also noticed that even after unzipping v2.0.0-alpha.4, running install.bat and signing out of my user profile (and when I signed back in, I did see a console window talking about downloading symbols that I believe is related to TranslucentFlyouts)... there were NO REGISTRY KEY for TranslucentFlyouts. And obviously, no translucency effects were working. I tried creating the registry entries described in config.md manually and setting appropriate values, but it still didn't work.

ALTaleX531 commented 1 year ago

Yes, "Transparency effects" is required to be enabled in Windows 11. Please try to delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Dwm\ForceEffectMode and restart dwm.exe.

e-t-l commented 1 year ago

Deleting ForceEffectMode key solved it! Didn't even need to restart DWM.