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Maplespe / ExplorerBlurMica

Add background Blur effect or Acrylic (Mica for win11) effect to explorer for win10 and win11
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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Effect Extends to StartIsBack Start Menu and Render Opaquely #125

Closed D-Maxwell closed 5 months ago

D-Maxwell commented 8 months ago

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.

Maplespe commented 8 months ago

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

D-Maxwell commented 8 months ago

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
Maplespe commented 8 months ago

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".

D-Maxwell commented 8 months ago

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 commented 5 months ago

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.