Bug with acrylic transparent background (windows 11)

Ran into a weird one today with the transparent acylic background and it is fully reproducible.

I’m on my Windows 11 machine and have noticed three bugs:
1: when Canary is maximized it switches to my default dark mode UI and I have to re-toggle it to change it back to transparent background.
2: after re-toggling transparent mode and auto-restarting Inkdrop, I have to use it in a resized window in order for it to stay transparent
3: when I click out of Inkdrop to another application the UI theme changes again to a dark gray and clicking back into Inkdrop changes it back to translucent

Short video:

Hi @Christopher_Novas ,

Thanks for reporting it.
I’d like to know if it is really an issue or not.
I suspect that it is intended by Electron or Windows, because the app itself does nothing with the transparent effect when maximized.
I’m planning to update Electron to the latest.

@Lukas what do you think?

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Hi @craftzdog, @Christopher_Novas,

  1. Ok, so that is an interesting problem because the behavior only appears when you drag the window to the top and use the snapping feature. If you instead click the maximize button (this button works again in the canary version) in the top‑right corner, the issue does not occur (maybe a workaround until the snapping feature behaves correctly again). The same problem also does not happen when you snap the window to the right, left, or any other location that isnt full‑screen.

  2. This seems like a bug, since it does not happen if you close the window and start the app again. In that case the position is saved and the app returns to the maximized state. For some reason, however, the position is not saved correctly when you restart the app using the auto‑restart functionality when enabling a translucent background.

  3. I don’t see a problem here. This is normal behavior for most Windows apps that use a translucent background. You can for example check the windows settings app that behaves exactly the same.

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