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Acrylic title bar
matthewj15 wrote:Through a 3rd party dev, was able to get Edge Chromium to use acrylic title bars and it is absolutely stunning. Microsoft should definitely integrate this natively into the app. So for those who think its not possible, if a 3rd party dev is able to do it, Microsoft should be able to.
Wow that is stunning. Awesome job!
please share the program with us, would love to give it a try.
HotCakeX this is the "hack" being used - http://www.glass8.eu/ - but I don't recommend it because it's broken in Windows 10 1909 and tends to screw things up with major update releases.
filetrekker1360 wrote:HotCakeX this is the "hack" being used - http://www.glass8.eu/ - but I don't recommend it because it's broken in Windows 10 1909 and tends to screw things up with major update releases.
Oh well I'm on build 2004 (insider)
HotCakeX It's not worth doing, the hack the guy used has more problems than just being a weird hack of Windows 10. It requires you to run Chromium in Windows 7 compatibility mode, resets on close / relaunch, adds ugly black borders to the window frame because of the fact that it's being run in Windows 7 compatibility mode, and also adds an ugly watermark to your desktop unless you pay for it. It's also not true acrylic, just a fake effect which isn't blurry enough or the right colour so it mismatches with the rest of Windows 10 anyway. This is even if you can get it working, and ignoring the fact it'll keep breaking your OS with any major update. It's really not worth doing and is why I say it's not true 'Acrylic', just a cheap acrylic imitation using hacked in Aero Glass to the DWM.
filetrekker1360 wrote:HotCakeX It's not worth doing, the hack the guy used has more problems than just being a weird hack of Windows 10. It requires you to run Chromium in Windows 7 compatibility mode, resets on close / relaunch, adds ugly black borders to the window frame because of the fact that it's being run in Windows 7 compatibility mode, and also adds an ugly watermark to your desktop unless you pay for it. It's also not true acrylic, just a fake effect which isn't blurry enough or the right colour so it mismatches with the rest of Windows 10 anyway. This is even if you can get it working, and ignoring the fact it'll keep breaking your OS with any major update. It's really not worth doing and is why I say it's not true 'Acrylic', just a cheap acrylic imitation using hacked in Aero Glass to the DWM.
I don't care about that 3rd party tool.
Microsoft should do it themselves