Replace Window Background Image with Native Windows Glass?
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Is there a CSS mod or something I could do to display Native Windows Glass instead of a Window Background Image?
In Windows 7, most web browsers display transparent Aero Glass behind the tabs of a browser.
In Windows 10, those same web browsers, including Vivaldi (NB I haven't tested Vivaldi on Win7) display an opaque texture behind the tabs of a browser. The Win10 equivalent of Aero Glass is never displayed behind Chromium-based browser tabs. This can be observed by installing glass8.eu, a Windows 10 mod that makes Win10 glass transparent. The title bars of Windows Explorer, Vivaldi with "Native Window" enabled, Paint.NET, etc. are all transparent. But unfortunately, Vivaldi does not extend "Native Window" behind browser tabs.I would like to extend the Native Window behind Vivaldi's tabs, but haven't had any luck. I tried loading a transparent PNG as the Window Background Image, but Vivaldi only showed the vanilla coloured texture, rather than Native Window.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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@Darthagnon
Can't be done with CSS, JS, or PNGs: both the OS and the software have to support it. And the results are often poor when it comes further the titlebar... For examples:- on Paint.NET latest updates the glass effect is often partially glitched;
- Office dropped the glass since 2013 version;
- Firefox and chromium lost the glass behind tabs from a long time but always had perfomance drawbacks
- Vivaldi only have glass for OS generated titlebars on windows 7 or Windows 10 + Aero Glass.
I used Aero Glass on Win10 for a lot of time, but sadly the DWM API is quite in deprecation since Windows 8 and I fear won't last forever as it is moving to Acrylic with 10/11. For example, the glass reflection effect already stopped to work on my Aero Glass, so is transparent and not translucid anymore
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It's such a pity, as aero glass is beautiful. Thank you for your insights!
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AeroGlass8 project is dead. The latest version may (or not) still work decently on windows 10.
But someone did a project for Windows11 Mica if someone (I'll do soon) want to fiddle with it
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What is the point of making anything in the browser interface transparent? If there is anything behind that with text or a picture, then any text on that interface will be at least difficult if not impossible to read.
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@Streptococcus Well, it can't be done however. Most browsers now don't support DWM on tab bars (for performance/ally) but was nice on titlebars ^^,
An almost fully trasparency was possible only with XUL fox and was very skeumorphic, like reading a text with permanent marker from a glass panel. A bit extreme even for me
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