Curtains 1.15 Release Issue Report Thread

Curtains 1.15 Beta Changelog:

• Fixes the blank line with glass in explorer

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Hi. I just installed the update  curtains 1.15 and I lost my Stardock Objectdock when I rebooted. My object dock is the latest one. But honestly it hasn't been updated in years

I will try uninstalling curtains to see If I can get it back my Objectdock. Which has all my quick links

 I'm am running Windows 10 -- version 2004 -- ( Build 1904.685)

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. I don't see that happening on my system. Please check if ObjectDock still listed in your TaskManager Startup Tabs and Status is enabled. Report back.

Thanks
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

ObjectDock was not running in the task manager. But it would also not uninstall either, the Uninstaller said i should stop objectdock first. I checked taskmaster again nothing running execpt something called Dockapp or something similar to that. I killed it and was able to uninstall ObjectDock. This was all after I Uninstalled Curtains.

I then Rebooted, then reinstalled ObjectDock. No luck objectDock still not loading

No luck, so i reloaded my Windows 10 partition from a backup and got rid of Curtains.

I have object dock back now. Will make sure to do a windows image before i chance updating any Object Desktop modules now.

I suspect the issue was unrelated to the installation of Curtains other than it needing a reboot which is when the issue showed up.  Any reboot would probably have shown the same problem.

I just updated curtains and did a reboot with the back up reinstalled. Seems to be working fine now . So your correct must have been related to another issue. I have the updated curtains and object dock working now.

I'm using Curtains on Windows 10 Preview build 21313.rs_prerelease.210209-1440, which is in beta anyway.  I don't expect things to always work perfectly.  The last month of Windows builds, Curtains shows weird blue bubbles, extra lines, and the top bar continues beyond the window boundary as you can see in the screenshot.  

Quoting mskreg, reply 8

I'm using Curtains on Windows 10 Preview build 21313.rs_prerelease.210209-1440, which is in beta anyway.  I don't expect things to always work perfectly.  The last month of Windows builds, Curtains shows weird blue bubbles, extra lines, and the top bar continues beyond the window boundary as you can see in the screenshot.  

Reduced 83%

Original 800 x 449

If you go into the skin settings and right click on the skin and choose edit skin. Choose shadows and turn it off or drag the sliders to the left.

Quoting mskreg, reply 8

I'm using Curtains on Windows 10 Preview build 21313.rs_prerelease.210209-1440, which is in beta anyway.  I don't expect things to always work perfectly.  The last month of Windows builds, Curtains shows weird blue bubbles, extra lines, and the top bar continues beyond the window boundary as you can see in the screenshot.  

I'm having a simmilar issue. The top bar displays incorrectly but just for explorer and for the first time the window is open. Minimizing, maximizing or alt + tabbing makes the window have the correct top bar again.

Also for me the bar looks smaller, I think this has to do with my display being high DPI.

Here is a screenshot of the issue:

Quoting mskreg, reply 8

I'm using Curtains on Windows 10 Preview build 21313.rs_prerelease.210209-1440, which is in beta anyway.  I don't expect things to always work perfectly.  The last month of Windows builds, Curtains shows weird blue bubbles, extra lines, and the top bar continues beyond the window boundary as you can see in the screenshot.  

Please make sure to file a bug using the Microsoft feedback tool in your insider build of Windows.

An investigation here suggests there is a bug in how that Window insider build is rendering titlebars after an accent colour change.  If you have the Windows 10 theme applied you can reproduce a similar issue.

To repro without Curtains applied :

1) Apply Windows 10 style from within Curtains
2) Ensure you have an explorer window open next to the curtains UI
3) Click the colours button in Curtains
4) Tick or untick the option to get the accent colour from the wallpaper.  You may have to do this a few times or just one may be sufficient (it is timing sensitive and sometimes it fixes itself)

Notice how the shadows on the windows are now only in the corners. 

Basically the OS is painting the images using the physical image sizes instead of the window size.  As many curtains styles have large images they extend past the edge of the window.  As the default OS style has a tiny set of images these paint tiny.

I imagine you could repro the same without Curtains installed by toggling the very same option in the personalisation settings.

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Unrelated to this issue, I would recommend you update to Curtains 1.17 beta as that would fix the issue with the weather info on the taskbar having a black background vs the theme one.

Quoting madcampos, reply 10

Quoting mskreg,

reply 8

I'm using Curtains on Windows 10 Preview build 21313.rs_prerelease.210209-1440, which is in beta anyway.  I don't expect things to always work perfectly.  The last month of Windows builds, Curtains shows weird blue bubbles, extra lines, and the top bar continues beyond the window boundary as you can see in the screenshot.  

I'm having a simmilar issue. The top bar displays incorrectly but just for explorer and for the first time the window is open. Minimizing, maximizing or alt + tabbing makes the window have the correct top bar again.

Also for me the bar looks smaller, I think this has to do with my display being high DPI.

Here is a screenshot of the issue:

As with my reply to mskreg, this is the issue with the insider build of Windows.

In your case I suspect you have turned on glass explorer backgrounds as this seems to also trigger the very same issue but for Window opens.

Please do file a bug with Microsoft using their Feedback tool as the more reports, the more chance of them actually fixing things.

Thanks.  And as I said, I don't expect things to work perfectly in an insider build of Windows.  I did report the shadowed corners to Microsoft and included a screenshot of using Curtains similar to the one above. 

The extended taskbar issue is fixed by editing the Curtains style and "Reset to default" Window Title Bar.  I have not found the setting to edit in order to eliminate the extended window borders.  I'm guessing that Curtains is redrawing those, too.  Because Curtains is drawing its own title bar and borders, I was unable to duplicate the problem using only Windows Personalization settings.  I tried the Curtains beta you suggested, but it was a disaster.  The entire taskbar turned transparent, and a red mouse click indicator was applied.  I couldn't find any mouse click indicator setting anywhere in Curtains.  I uninstalled the beta and reinstalled version 1.15.  Everything is back to "normal".

But again, I'm just letting you know about the bugs.  A future build of Windows will no doubt help.

And we thank you for it.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

The red mouse click indicator sounds like the Windows Feedback reporting recording option.

Curtains has no such setting.

Ah yes, I'm a moron.  You are right.  That's funny.  You can tell I've never done a Windows Feedback recording.