The result was what I had before, a pearly white window. I deactivated the Aero Lite Theme, stopped the "Aero Glass" services and logged out and back in.
Unfortunately I am completely at sea here. If the description of what I did helps at least one other visitor searching for a solution, it's fine for me. But fact is, that the Glass effect does not work ootb for me, and maybe others. I have no idea where they lead to, or whether they are helpful at all. Sorry, but I don't think I'll add that to the Wiki. Which they might never do, no matter how many people complain. It's the second best way to get glassy looks back after having Microsoft to fully add Aero back.
(And backgrounds of windows that ask for it, like the new Windows 10 Calculator app.)ĭoesn't work on non-regular ones, like Firefox, though. It just adds a Theme that utilizes Direct3D to add a Glass effect to the title bars of regular windows. It is all documented on their site.Īs for " Aero Glass", I do not think that this is exactly necessary. However, the obscure Winaero Tweaker does nothing more than changing settings, mainly through the registry, that you can change by hand, as well. Well, without "Aero Lite", which is already there but disabled by default, that Windows feature is simply not available but for the task bar and the start menu.
I can hardly believe it should be necessary to add third-party software from obscure download sources in order to make a Windows feature work. However it is already quite stable and pretty, and I've been using it daily for a while, so I thought I might share it. There are some small visual artifacts and it is not as performant as regular mintty. The drawing code is a bit messy since I have to work around GDI's limitations. I think this branch would need a bit of work before merging. It is not easy since plain GDI does not know about alpha. The trick is to ensure that everything gets drawn with the correct alpha channel.
On Windows 10, I'm using the undocumented SetWindowCompositionAttribute API (which Windows itself uses to blur behind the start menu), and on older Windows versions DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea. The default background color is partially transparent, while the foreground and the other background colors are opaque, as well as the title bar. I've been working a bit on this, and I got transparency with blur-behind working on Windows 7 and 10 (and Windows 8 if you use AeroGlass) in my fork ( jdmansour/mintty):