WindowBlinds application compatibility issues
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 by Neil Banfield | Discussion: WindowBlinds
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) The app name
2) The OS you are using
3) The theme you are using
4) The problem you have encountered
5) If you did report it to support a ticket number would help.
If the issue is visual a screenshot would help and where the app is more unusual we would like to know where we may be able to obtain a trial or demo version of it from.
Please note that we are not looking for bug reports on making skins here. This is specifically for application issues.
Reply #162 Saturday, March 29, 2014 8:37 PM
If you read the post properly, you'd have known I already tried it. That was the first thing I tried.
Reply #163 Sunday, March 30, 2014 7:58 AM
1) Classic Shell
2) Windows 8.1
3) "Win8"
4) The right column of the start menu text is black instead of white. As soon as you unload WindowBlinds it goes back to the normal white. This happens in a few other skins as well (i.e. Corporate) so it may be a skin issue. Either way the start menu is very difficult to read in black.
By the way, I know about Start8, and I would use that instead...if only it could do the fly-out menus for All Programs I think it would be perfect!
Reply #164 Sunday, March 30, 2014 7:59 AM
And not to hijack my own post, but in Windows 8.1 whenever WB is loaded and you right-click on the desktop, the menu is always in Arial instead of SegoeUI...a minor issue, sure, but it happens no matter what skin I choose. I've tried to adjust the Font settings through WB but nothing changes that.
Reply #165 Friday, August 8, 2014 2:03 PM
Chrome still Broke after a year since first reported.
1) The app name
Google Chrome
2) The OS you are using
Windows 8.1
3) The theme you are using
ANY THEME
4) The problem you have encountered
The title and controls are invisable
5) If you did report it to support a ticket number would help.
Reply #166 Saturday, September 13, 2014 4:46 PM
I am having MAJOR problems with WindowBlinds since the last few updates came out for Windows 8.1 in August and September. I do have the latest version of WindowBlinds, version 8.06. This morning I tried to install some updates from Windows Update, and I almost thought I was going to have to wipe out my hard drive and reinstall everything from scratch! My computer would not finish booting up -- it would start to load the desktop, and then it would keep flashing up a blue screen and then starting over loading the desktop. I couldn't even get System Restore to work! At first I wasn't even able to reboot in Safe Mode. After tinkering for a long time, I finally managed to get into Safe Mode. I could tell that it seemed to be when the taskbar changed colors, as it does when WindowBlinds loads, that the system was hanging. So, purely on a hunch as an act of desperation, I removed all of my Stardock software (Start8, ModernMix, Fences, and WindowBlinds) and then restarted my computer. That worked -- it booted up normally. So I decided to reinstall the Stardock applications one by one, to see which one was causing the problem. Start8, ModernMix, and Fences all worked just fine. But as soon I tried to reload WindowBlinds, the problems started again. Thankfully, this time, I was able to get into Safe Mode right away, uninstall WindowBlinds, and restart my computer. It came up fine after WindowBlinds was uninstalled So obviously, WindowBlinds is what is causing the problem.
I've had WindowBlinds on my computer for quite a long time, and I never had any problems with it until around August. So I feel sure that something from Windows Update has created a compatibility problem that wasn't there before.
I have also reported this problem to Support (ticket #UGJ-662-24855), but I wanted to let the problem be known here publicly.
Reply #167 Saturday, September 13, 2014 5:24 PM
Well, since someone has awakened this thread once again, I'll pitch in.
Neil, I have been talking with Keith Lammers at Binary Fortress (DisplayFusion) about the way that the start button on a secondary monitor gets skewed and he says they are talking to you about it.
He says I could drop a line at ya about it, so here I am.
It's a minor thing, but it sucks. I hope yall get it fixed.
Start button on primary monitor:
Start button on secondary monitor using DisplayFusion:
Reply #169 Wednesday, September 17, 2014 3:17 AM
Love the site, and keep on keeping on!
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Reply #170 Sunday, September 21, 2014 2:45 PM
1) The app name
Topaz Impression
2) The OS you are using
Windows 8.1
3) The theme you are using
Using theme Echo at the moment, but doesn't matter which theme you use, program won't load unless you first unload WB
4) The problem you have encountered
Program won't load unless WB is unloaded first.
Any way for you guys to take a look at it? They offer a 30 day preview at http://www2.topazlabs.com/.
Thanks.
P.S. Love your products.
Reply #171 Monday, October 20, 2014 11:43 AM
1) Sumatra pdf viewer is showing the same titlebar problem that FF 33 is showing.
2) Windows 7
3) Any theme
4) Title bar not skinning properly, buttons transparent as well.
*Sumatra was skinning fine until they did an update on 10/18. In Sumatra, if you go to settings and uncheck "use tabs", the problem goes away.
I posted this in another thread before someone pointed me to this thread.
Reply #172 Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:55 AM
1) The lastest Google Chrome 64-bit Beta. More specific: version 39.0.2171.27 beta-m (64-bit).
2) Windows 7 64-bit SP1.
3) Frontier, by vStyler.
But this issue also occurs with other themes.
4) When I minimize Google Chrome to the taskbar, and then click the icon to open it again, the whole Google Chrome window got shifted to the right.
So there is an empty nonfunctional border between my taskbar (which is placed on the left side of my screen) and the actual Google Chrome application.
This ONLY happens with Google Chrome by the way.
Screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2648/windowblinds_googlechrome_bug.PNG
I can get it fixed by moving the Google Chrome window a bit and clicking the Maximize button. But the border returns after minimizing to taskbar and opening again.
Additional info:
I also have the exact same set-up on a laptop here, so
- same Google Chrome version
- same OS version
- same theme
- same placement of taskbar
It also happens there.
Also, it does NOT happen when I place the taskbar at the bottom (= the normal placement).
Then no empty nonfunction border ever appears.
EDIT 25/10/14:
It also happens with Paint.NET.
Reply #173 Wednesday, October 29, 2014 1:47 PM
This is something that seems to have been a problem for awhile (see this post), when skinning Putty the following occurs (quoted from the original post):
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've been playing with this a bit and have had a similar lack of success in getting anything to work. Completely unskinning Putty, as the OP points out, isn't very pleasant.
Has anyone had any luck getting WB to work with Putty?
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Reply #161 Saturday, March 29, 2014 8:27 PM
Exclude Ps from Windowblinds:
Step 4 - is just checking the top box in the window that will open when you click "open" in 3.
Then just OK that and *poof*...no more problems with Ps being skinned.