Open bobjoe400 opened 7 months ago
This feature worked before I updated PowerToys to the latest version.
This could be caused by the app Mica For Everyone. Please see #28217 for more details on how to resolve this incompatibility. Does this help? /needinfo
@SeraphimaZykova do you happen to know if anything changed in the latest version, that could possibly lead to this?
This could be caused by the app Mica For Everyone. Please see #28217 for more details on how to resolve this incompatibility. Does this help? /needinfo
No I do not have this app installed.
@SeraphimaZykova do you happen to know if anything changed in the latest version, that could possibly lead to this?
No changes should have affected this behavior in the latest update. @bobjoe400, could you please verify if it happens with every semi-transparent window? A few examples I can assume are PowerToys TextExtractor and AlwaysOnTop.
@SeraphimaZykova Could it be related to SetLayeredWindowAttributes, like in #29411, maybe? @bobjoe400 can you tell if this happens with every setting for the colors, both in PT Settings and the Windows accent color?
Welp pals,
It appears to have fixed itself after a restart. I apologize that I didn't try the classic, "turn it off and back on again" approach before coming to y'all.
However, there is an interesting behavior that I have noticed Windows having, that I believe is related to this issue.
Here's my personalization settings:
After I do a graphics driver update through Nvidia's driver update tool or my graphics driver/adapter crash and recovers, and then I do not restart Windows after either occasion, the task bar changes from its normal 0x1e1e1e
dark transparent gray to a 0x000000
opaque black.
The last time that I checked on originally posted issue was before I restarted my computer last night due to an unrelated reason. A few days ago an on old game that I was trying to modify had ended up crashing my graphics driver/adapter and I hadn't restarted since the crash. (Don't bully me for having my computer on for days at a time)
I believe that the originally posted issue started after this crash but I cannot be for certain. I can be certain, however, that the taskbar does the above behavior after every driver update.
I posture that the same issue that is causing my taskbar to change color/transparency upon a graphics driver restart (which is happening in either an update or a recoverable crash) is causing FancyZones to not use the correct color/transparency settings.
The idea of color issues causing this to happen being mentioned here:
Could it be related to SetLayeredWindowAttributes, like in #29411, maybe? @bobjoe400 can you tell if this happens with every setting for the colors, both in PT Settings and the Windows accent color?
Made me think of this.
Microsoft PowerToys version
0.77.0
Installation method
PowerToys auto-update
Running as admin
No
Area(s) with issue?
FancyZones
Steps to reproduce
Set opacity in FancyZones to any opacity, and move a window to a zone using the hotkey.
✔️ Expected Behavior
Hover window over a zone will show a zone of the opacity selected in the FancyZones editor.
❌ Actual Behavior
Opacity is always fully opaque, no matter the opacity setting in FancyZones
Here's a screenshot of the issue:![FancyZonesIssueScreenshot](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/assets/9300991/5ecac6a3-b6e6-4d9c-a638-aee0b6e34910)
Here's a video of the issue: FancyZonesOpacityBug.webm
Other Software
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor 3.40 GHz Installed RAM 32.0 GB Device ID F1C71909-546E-47DD-8446-8979E60A9B88 Product ID 00330-80000-00000-AA855 System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display
Edition Windows 10 Pro Version 22H2 Installed on 9/30/2022 OS build 19045.3930 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0