3 dots -> preference menu does not always appear until mouse-over

[shodanx2]

Preflight Checklist

• [X] I have fully read the README and it did not solve the problem.
• [X] I have searched all open and closed issues for the same bug report without success.

EverythingToolbar Version

1.0.3.0

Windows Version

Windows 10 19045.2604

Steps to reproduce

Sometimes when I press the 3 dots menu and navigate to preference, the menu items do not appear

Unsure what is causing that, here is a screenshot

Uploading 2023-04-09 23-42-44.mp4…

Expected Behavior

The menu should appear when mouse over preference menu

Actual Behavior

Sometimes the menu appears, sometimes it requires a mouseover pass

Screenshots

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Log output

No output found at the relevant date stamps

Additional Information

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[shodanx2]

It seems the screenshot didn't take, here it is again

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10621885/230821806-838d8c44-3df1-4218-92d4-971f18021443.mp4

[srwi]

Does this also happen if you close all background processes? Specifically I could imagine whatever is producing those white element outlines to cause this. Could you please try disabling that and see if the problem persists after rebooting the machine?

[shodanx2]

Hello,

The white line on the systray happen because of my high contrast theme greyeves

I tried settings another, normal color theme and the issue still occurred

I thought QuickSwitch was likely the cause, however the bug still happenned with it turned off

Next I turned off, gajim, synctrayzor and sharex

Next I turned of MS Powertoys and Ditto, but still

Next I turned off, steam, streamdeck, greenshot and mumble

Spacedesk, bluetooth tray, stardock groupy, eartrumper

ffmpeg, barrierd , elgato audio server, adb, bonjour I seem to no longer be able to reproduce the issue, I bet that ffmpeg gdi screen grabber, is very cpu intensive and was making the UI skip a beat.

restarted ffmpeg, it comes back

turned off ffmpeg desktop streamer again, problem goes away, it really really looks like this is the cause

ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate 60 -video_size 3840x2160 -i desktop -vf "scale=1920:1080" -c:v h264_nvenc -preset llhp -tune ull -f mpegts udp://239.0.0.10:9998

Just a strange UI/GDI interaction maybe

[srwi]

I tried your command and I can't reproduce the issue while ffmpeg is recording the screen to file. Does this only happen while recording the screen?

[shodanx2]

Yes, it stopped happenning when I disabled ffmpeg. I am always streaming my desktop to local multicast as my screen is showing up on other monitors in the house. The issue was intermittent, even before I started killing processes it would do it about 1/3 of the time or less.

It seems to be happenning less often as I killed more processes and completely stopped happenning when I disabled ffmpeg. I could be a general performance issue and ffmpeg is just something that takes a lot of cpu/gpu time ? (5700x/4070ti/64GB)

In any case, now that I know how to make the preferences menu appear, and since I have this toolbar setup to my liking and won't need that menu much, it's fixed for me.

I was just worried about new users getting confused when nothing appears in the preference menu but even that seems to be a rare case that only affects me ?!

So I think this topic isn't really a problem anymore.