Microsoft Office

Anyone expecting that mess to be skinnable......

Good luck.

Never noticed this thread.  In that case,

Windows 8 Enterprise x64

Any theme

1.  Pretty much all recent Microsoft apps.  Office 2013 doesn't skin at all with the "title bar" and ribbon being wrapped in a NetUIHWND class window i.e. not following normal windowing schemes.  

2.  WebMatrix3 configurator's titlebar is completely translucent except for the text and app icon.  The normal window management icons are translucent as well.  The entire window is wrapped in a HwndWrapper class window.  If this program weren't in the style of a growing Microsoft trend, I would say who really cares.  Compatibility option "Enable this to prevent the application using glass" resolves the translucency but results in the titlebar not being skinned with the window controls being stretched vertically like a carnival funhouse mirror to fit whatever size the skin requires.  Setting this application to ignore skinning altogether is no different from the prevent the application using glass option.  Theme irrelevant.

Application Ignored:

3.  Trillian's "title bar" is completely translucent as well.  As you can see below, every part of the window background above the bluish gradient is missing.  This one's class is icoTrilly but quite frankly I could care less about this program skinning correctly either.  Compatibility option "Enable this to prevent the application using glass" resolves the issue prevents the translucent title bar.  Unless all of the following options are enabled, the process will crash upon trying to exit:

"Ignore this application and do not skin it"

"Disable background bitmaps and for this app"

"Disable scrollbars for this app"

"Disable titlebar skinning for this app"

I'm at a loss as to why the total exclusion feature alone isn't enough to prevent the crash yet this crash is 100% consistent without all the listed options checked none-the-less.  The translucency shows up in BREEZE FOR 7 although any custom theme will crash the process either on start or exit.

 As a disclaimer, I didn't post these originally out of sheer apathy, not laziness.  That makes it ok, right?

Yep.

1. Nero CoverDesigner 15.0.5000

2. Windows 8.0 Pro x64 build 9200

3. Any

4. The app doesn't work properly, graphic smears out.

When putting the exe in exclusion list, it works fine.

5. No ticket number yet.

Got another one.  Same issue with my post above with the translucent titlebars and such but this one for Tor Browser and instead of the taskbars, its the area that holds the empty tab space and such which I thought was somewhat odd since it, in effect, is just a stripped down Firefox.  Screenshot just looks the same as Trillian does but if you truly need them, I can get them.  This one has nothing to do with the any selected Theme and disabling theming the window is the only compatibility option that works with some cause even stranger issues.

Thanks,

Matt

Additional Edit:

Here's a PuTTY problem which out of anything would be my personal pick for a fix.

That thing on the right hand side is supposed to be the scrollbar except trying to manage it with the mouse makes window focus fall through to the background window as if it weren't even there.  It still functions, however, and scrolling up and down lets you see the little block moving up and down as well but it has to be done with the mousewheel.  Theme is irrelevant again.  Only fix right now is to disable themeing it in compatibility.  Not a single one of the other icons had any effect at all unfortunately.  I use this constantly and while the others programs I've reported have issues, they are barely noticeable in comparison to a the typical plain, bland PuTTY window in the middle of a pretty screen.

I have been using Start8 and Windows Blinds for months with no problems on Windows 8 Pro. 

I upgraded SeaMonkey 2.20 yesterday to the latest version 2.21.  2.20 (and earlier versions) worked fine with Windows Blinds. But 2.21 has a problem that I think is related to Windows Blinds.  I have thoroughly troubleshooted SeaMonkey (tried SafeMode, tried a new Profile, etc) and I still have the problem.  I have not turned off Windows Blinds to be certain incompatibility with it is the problem as the only reason I am still on Windows 8 Pro (instead of having "downgraded" to Windows 7 Pro) is because I have Start 8 and Windows Blinds so I can't bear to turn off Windows Blinds even briefly.

The problem is with SeaMonkey 2.21 not properly minimizing to the Taskbar and then not maximizing correctly. I use Win 8 Style with substyle of Win 8 and my own customization of font, colors, desktop background, etc. I have the taskbar on full transparency.  After I minimize SeaMonkey to the taskbar (not pinned...but pinning makes no difference with the problem) when I mouse hover over the SeaMonkey icon, I do NOT see a thumbnail of the SeaMonkey window I minimized. Instead, I see a vertical transparent list of all tabs.  If I try to maximize the SeaMonkey window, it will not maximize unless I click on the bottom most tab that is shown vertically. When I do that then a SECOND window opens maximized slightly off center and behind it is the normal SeaMonkey window that I minimized and it is opened full screen. I have to try and close the top window and then I have SeaMonkey properly maximized on the window underneath. I go through this hassle every time I minimize SeaMonkey and then want to maximize it again.  I can see on the Taskbar that there appears to be three SeaMonkey windows stacked but there is actually only the one that I minimized. I cannot access the other two windows that appear to be there. 

This is a 10 month old desktop computer that runs 24/7.  I usually  have several browsers open at the same time so I minimize to the taskbar frequently. I rarely close a browser (or reboot).  So, given how I use my computer this problem is particularly irritating.  My default browser is Firefox 17.0.9 ESR and it works fine with Windows Blinds but I am worried that when the new ESR version 24 is pushed (by internal update) around the first of 2014 that it too may have this problem.

I'm not sure how to add screenshots here so here's a link to where I have screenshots showing the problem.

http://imgur.com/a/acI4W#x7ZPx0c

Google Chrome dev-m Aura builds, both Windows 8.0 and 8.1.  Titlebar is completely transparent, and no controls.  Also a gap between the window border and the actual window.

Likely due to the new hardware accelerated UI. 

https://imgur.com/WDR7qKM

OpenGL accelerated windows such as Minecraft do not render the window border properly, also in both Windows 8.0 and 8.1.  Instead, the border has a "classic" style and is translucent.

https://imgur.com/U42jYYr

If the OpenGL context is in a child window, for example in my programming project DXGL, the borders render fine.

https://imgur.com/2vY0qp2

Using the Windows XP Style available at https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/2776/

Techno, 

Have you messed around with the compatibility settings for the app rather than just outright blocking it altogether?  It might provide some insight to the devs and maybe a possible solution in there somewhere.  It might be something to try while you await an official response.  It's helped me in the past, at least.

Regards

1) The app name

Firefox

Waterfox (64bit firefox version)

Cyberfox (64bit firefox version) <-- Currently used fox version here.

Basically any *fox it seems.

2) The OS you are using

Currently Windows 8.1, but issue was already present in 8.0

3) The theme you are using

Any theme used that isn't the default theme.

4) The problem you have encountered

COMPLETE transparancy  of titlebar, toolbars and tab area (I have my tabs vertical)

Link to screenshot: http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/6798/b37p.png

When using "default theme": http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/34/y1bu.png

When excluding Cyberfox in WB settings: http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/1322/urkx.png

5) If you did report it to support a ticket number would help.

No. Don't know what to write there.

Excluding Cyberfox makes it look horrible.

Having it fully transparent makes it unusable. (And I use it a lot)

Therefor I can only stick with the default theme till I figure what can fix this.

GTX2Gv0: It looks like some setting in your firefox may have become corrupted as it looks like FireFox is telling the OS it wants the entire background of the window to be treated as transparent.  This is a very bad thing to tell the OS because it comes with significant performance implications.

I imagine it is something to do with that bar on the right hand side.

That's my tab bar. And I want it there.

Disabling it doesn't help though.
(and I can't work with all my tabs cramped on the top)

Disabling anything that might cause any "Forced" transparency, doesn't help either.
With the default theme it would look horrible and with a skin on, the titlebar and certain elements are still transparent.
(Creating a mix of horribly looking and unusable features)
I also seem to loose my minimize, maximize and close buttons in that case.

Hell. I even looked if disabling WindowFX 5 would do any difference.
Which doesn't happen to be the case. :/

You will need to switch back to the default FireFox theme as I just realised you must be using a custom one.  You will also need to remove any exclusions from WB for FireFox.

I only have the default theme as I used Stylish to alter the general look of firefox.

Disabling stylish (and related components) + Other add-ons that might have effect on the UI only gave the above mentioned results.
(Already was ahead of you on that one)

Exclusions have already been removed. (no need to keep it if it's not working)

This seems to be more mis then hit for me.

Will still be looking further into this myself.

As there is no point for me to do any skinning if Firefox itself can't be skinned with it.
(as it's what I use the most)

Hmm. Interesting.

I've noticed the Flip3D from WindowFX is suffering from the same full transparency issue as firefox.

But then regardless of which theme is being used. (thus including the default theme)

So the only thing I see when I flip a window is the text that should be in it and any Icon/image presented on the flip window.
(Although really hard to read)

I think this might be related somehow.

It has come to our attention that some people may have had issues with some apps and WB and opted not to tell anyone about it.

Obviously we would like to know about them so we can resolve the issues.

If you have had an issue with an app caused by being skinned by WB, please post the following information in this thread:

1) Warcraft III Frozen Throne

2) Windows 7/8 both had the same issue

3) Precision.. All the skin had the same issue

4) Application not skinned, no title bar no side and bottom bar. 

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