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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:18:09 -0700
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Subject: Re: mintty window border?
To: Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
From: Backwoods BC via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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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
> > >>>jhg@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):

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM]
"AccentColorInactive"=dword:00ccddee

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Accent]
"MotionAccentId_v1.00"=dword:000000db
"AccentPalette"=hex:a9,ef,ff,00,79,e6,ff,00,48,d2,f2,00,00,99,bc,00,00,6b,83,\
  00,00,4b,5c,00,00,32,3d,00,e3,00,8c,00
"StartColorMenu"=dword:ff836b00
"AccentColorMenu"=dword:ffbc9900
"TaskbarColorOverride"=dword:ffff0000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"NoSizeChoice"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"NoDispBackgroundPage"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"NoDispScrSavPage"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"NoDispCPL"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"NoDispSettingsPage"=dword:00000000

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