Lag when resizing the window with Acrylic background

Issues
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my windows is 11

video for the bug
and i have problem with icons for adding img and so its very pixelated and small ,
thx

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Hi Vizkex,

Thanks for the video.
The acrylic window support is experimental and unstable in some environments.
You can contribute to the project here:

Unfortunately, the project is not active these days.

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GOOD NEWS: I found that Electron finally and officially supports Acrylic window!

I’ll look into it and migrate to it

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it’s really good news !!
I hope it’s fixed now

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Unfortunately, it was not as stable as expected.
backgroundMaterial = 'acrylic' works only if the window has a window frame.
Here is a screenshot:

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The biggest problem is that the window becomes not resizable with this config :dizzy_face:
I hope it will be resolved.
It’s already reported:

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i have a feeling it will take a long time
but its looking great :frowning:

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looks like the frameless bug got resolved

still nightly tho

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finely, i see new beta is the bug fix on it ?

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not yet

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Any updates on this?

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I’ll try it again when bumping up Electron to the latest

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still unstable, unfortunately

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GitHub - GregVido/mica-electron: Library to add mica effect of windows 11 in electron app very helpful to me

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Thanks for the info. Yeah it looks promising.
I wonder why the Electron team is still struggling to solve the issue…

Let me try again with the latest electron

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There are three issues in mica-electron:

  1. The window size is resized unexpectedly after launching.
  2. When maximizing the window, it can’t be restored to its original size.
  3. It doesn’t respect nativeTheme.themeSource so you have to manually call micaWindow.setDarkTheme() or setLightTheme() depending on the system theme mode

It unfortunately looks like the Electron team is busy on other issues, so this issue has not been resolved:

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I think we should give up the frameless window on Windows when enabling acrylic background.
It actually doesn’t look so bad:

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wdyt @Inkwadra

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v5.9.0-beta.1 now supports the acrylic background on Windows.