Making the overflow menu translucent

[Tomikbobi]

iam trying to find a way to make the overflow menu translucent like the notifications trough the notification center styler

[bbmaster123]

Target: Border#OverflowFlyoutBackgroundBorder
Style: Background:=<AcrylicBrush TintColor="Transparent" />

[Tomikbobi]

For some reason i cant get this to work

[bbmaster123]

make sure transparency effects are turned on in settings under personalization > colors also, there is a known issue with transparency if you have multiple monitors

[Tomikbobi]

Already have the setting enabled and iam using only one monitor thats why i cant figure out the issue

[bbmaster123]

do you have any other mods enabled that affect the taskbar? for example TaskbarX, Startallback, etc could you send a log? logging can be turned on in advanced

[Tomikbobi]

I have translucentTB and thats about it. I will send log later then

[m417z]

There's a known incompatibility with TranslucentTB, see https://github.com/ramensoftware/windows-11-taskbar-styling-guide/issues/9#issuecomment-1896063781

[Tomikbobi]

still even when i turned off translucenttb and restarted it still wont work, but when i try just Background=transparent as style then it is workin but it doesnt look like i wanted

[Tomikbobi]

i hope that i did it right

[bbmaster123]

almost, but it would help if I could see the whole thing. Please do the following:

1. Disable the mod
2. Turn on logging
3. Enable the mod
4. Copy/paste everything into notepad, save as a .txt
5. drag and drop the txt file here

[Tomikbobi]

log.txt like this?

[bbmaster123]

yessir! I'll have a look as soon as I get home :)

[bbmaster123]

ok so the last part of the log stands out to me:

00000058    20.21943092 [4136] [WH] LL  
00000059    21.22572517 [5404] [WH] LL  
00000060    21.24013901 [5404] [WH] GPA 
00000061    21.24369240 [5404] [WH] II  
00000062    21.24517059 [5404] [WH] [InjectInit]: Running InjectInit    

it ends there, but it should continue on, even with no styles added.

Based on what I see, I think it might not be hooking explorer correctly, even though it partially works. @m417z might know more about what could be going on here, but in the meantime here's a bunch of things:

1. do you have a forked version of the mod which is also enabled?
2. did you add anything to the include/exclude lists?
3. did you replace explorer.exe or any dll's with another version?
4. can you please verify there is no other customization outside of Windhawk and TranslucentTB that would affect the taskbar? Please double check startup apps and task scheduler, and if anything does show up, temporarily disable them
5. is there anything else unique to your configuration that you can think of?
6. can you verify that your system image is healthy using the dism commands followed by sfc /scannow?
7. have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling windhawk? is windhawk running as admin?
8. did you change any vivetool ID's?

[Tomikbobi]

checked each thing and i dont think so, but i think i finally figured it out (kinda). The problem is apparantly with the AcrylicBrush. I cant believe that i didnt tried any other color or style to this point. So now why wouldnt AcrylicBrush work xd

[bbmaster123]

Can you try SolidColorBrush or LinearGradientBrush? is it a problem with: a. xaml brushes b. transparency

let me know

[Tomikbobi]

both of them works as well as transparent

[Tomikbobi]

weird thing is that the acrylicbrush works in the other mod (Windows 11 Notification Center Styler)

[bbmaster123]

then I'm not sure, AcrylicBrush should work fine if other brushes are working and it works in notification center

that being said, your log mentioned you were on 22621, you could try updating to 22631, otherwise I'd think something is conflicting or something about windows is a bit corrupt.

what does it say when you run dism and sfc?

1. open cmd as admin
2. dism /online /cleanup-image checkhealth - what does it say?
3. dism /online /cleanup-image scanhealth
4. dism /online /cleanup-image restorehealth - what does it say?
5. reboot
6. open cmd as admin
7. sfc /scannow - what does this say?

[Tomikbobi]

For the last 20mins or so iam stuck updating no progress bar nothing

[Tomikbobi]

2. Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool Version: 10.0.22621.2792

Image Version: 10.0.22621.4112

No component store corruption detected. The operation completed successfully. 4. Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool Version: 10.0.22621.2792

Image Version: 10.0.22621.4112

[==========================100.0%==========================] The restore operation completed successfully. The operation completed successfully.

[m417z]

Looks similar to this report: https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk-mods/issues/883

I don't know why the diagnostics don't fire up the element enumeration. Try to find a way to reproduce it so that I'll be able to debug it and investigate the problem.

It's also surprising that having it transparent works. That doesn't make sense to me, I'd expect the mod to not work at all if element enumeration doesn't work. If you can post logs with both trying the transparent style and trying the translucent style, it might provide some insights.

[Tomikbobi]

traslucent.txt transparent.txt hope that i did it right

[m417z]

I see that the reason logs are missing is that you enabled Windhawk logging, but didn't enable mod logging.

Attach debug logs by following the instructions on the Troubleshooting page: https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk/wiki/Troubleshooting#some-or-all-windhawk-mods-dont-work

• Disable the mod.
• Go to the mod's Advanced tab.
• Set Debug logging to Detailed debug logs.
• Click on Show log output.
• Enable the mod.
• Verify that the mod doesn't work, copy the log and save it to a file.
• Set Debug logging back to None.

[Tomikbobi]

debug.txt like this?

[m417z]

Yes, I see that it's <AcrylicBrush TintColor="Transparent" /> is configured, but it wasn't used during the logging. Did you open the overflow tray during logging?

[Tomikbobi]

i dont think so