Hi,
I'm having a bit of trouble with my WindowBlinds, and I was hoping someone might be able to help please.
I've recently installed WindowBlinds, and after flipping back and forth between a few themes, I discovered that some of my apps aren't rendering properly. Between the actual content of the window, and the window frame (as rendered by WindowBlinds), there is a gap of 'nothingness'. It's usually rendered as white when the app is first launched, but if I drag the frame to resize the window, I get a horrific 'hall of mirrors' effect. If I had to guess, data is being written to the framebuffer, but nothing is overwriting it, so I get a repeating window frame in this gap. The size of the gap varies from skin to skin, sometimes only a few pixels, sometimes over 100 pixels.
This happens in some apps, but not others. Firefox is fine, as is Explorer, LibreOffice, and WindowBlinds config itself. Apps like VLC, qBittorrent, and XNView are presenting this 'nothingness gap' between their window content and the Stardock-rendered frame. (And for the record, I use qBittorrent for seeding Linux ISOs and open-source software, nothing more.)
I'm running Windows 10 1903 (build 18362.959) 64-bit. All my software is legally licensed. WindowBlinds reports the following in the About dialogue:
Windows 10 Enterprise (18362.19h1_release_svc_prod1.190628-1641)
WindowBlinds 10.84 (059 - Windows 10 Edition) - 64 bit OS
Window titlebar blur features are enabled on this operating system
Wblind.dll 2019/11/19 00:41:12
Wblind64.dll 2019/11/19 00:41:51
Wbsrv.dll 2019/05/04 13:29:46
WB10Config.exe 2019/11/19 00:41:16
Wbload.dll 2019/05/09 05:13:37
Screen10.exe 2019/05/04 13:29:17
What I've found so far:
- I have tried uninstalling all my StarDock applications, rebooting, and only installing WindowBlinds, but the gap persists.
- I have tried using multiple skins, including several StarDock-supplied ones (such as Diamond and Corporate) and several independently-made ones (such as AeroVistaX and eXperience), but they all produce the gap.
- Switching back to the 'Default Theme' (the Windows standard frame rendering) always solve the issue, but means I lose all functionality of WindowBlinds.
- Some skins cause a greater 'nothingness gap' than others (eXperience produces a relatively small gap, and StarDock's Diamond produces a huge gap).
- Maximising a Window always hides the gap, but it returns as soon as the window is restored.
- I have tried updating WindowBlinds, but it says that I'm on the latest version.
- I'm not running any other apps that might interfere with the rendering of windows.
Thank you for your time.
