On 25/08/2023 08:18, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 10:54 PM Gary Johnson via Cygwin > <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: >> >> On 2023-08-25, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: >>> >>> >>> Am 25.08.2023 um 02:41 schrieb Gary Johnson via Cygwin: >>>> On 2023-08-24, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 11:08 AM Jim Garrison via Cygwin >>>>> <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: >>>>>> This is an update to a question I had a couple of years ago >>>>>> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-April/248367.html >>>>>> >>>>>> Windows 11 now has an "accent color" option under >>>>>> Settings/Personalization/Colors that adds a thin (1px?) border around >>>>>> all windows, in a user-selectable color. This definitively eliminates >>>>>> the problem seen with overlapping mintty windows that have a dark grey >>>>>> or black background (where the shadow isn't visible). >>>>>> >>>>>> Just FYI >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Jim Garrison >>>>>> j...@acm.org >>>>> This is also true for Windows 10, although I may have had to >>>>> explicitly enable it (I don't remember). >>>> It's in the same place on Windows 10. I just enabled it. Thank you both! >>> But it adds the thin border only to the foreground window... >>> Thomas >> >> Yes, it's not as good as having a border around all windows all the >> time, or around just mintty and gvim windows, but it is so much >> better than nothing at all, or so it seems so far. >> >> Regards, >> Gary > > I get borders around both active and inactive windows, but then I've > spent hours (probably days) messing with registry values in an attempt > to gain the kind of UI control that was built into XP. I don't know > which change I made that gave me borders, but it is possible. > > Any combination of these changes may have done it -- or none of them > (I changed a lot of things): > [snip]
In Windows 10, I've managed to get inactive window title bars white with a dark accent and active dark with a white accent colour around without resorting to registry hacking. I'm using a solid black background, 'Light' colour setting and auto-selected accent colour in Preferences. I've also enabled the accent colour on title bars and window borders checkbox. I still have problems with non-compliant "I'll draw it myself" apps that don't use the stock furniture but it works for mintty at least. I'm baffled as to why a UI designer would introduce a feature that makes it difficult if not impossible to see the edges of windows in the first place but that's Microsoft all over. :-S -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
