nocturnia

Join Date 11/2002

Google Chrome and WB not working in 6.3

I was under the expectation that Google Chrome would be skinnable with the release of 6.3 but it's not working for me. Is there a setting I am missing somewhere?

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ZubaZ

Join Date 11/2001

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It skins pretty well. (as well as can be expected seeing that it doesnt follow MS standards.)

Can you post a screenshot?

What version of WB?

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V. 6.3.095, I believe it is. I just upgraded to the latest this afternoon. Vista Home Basic 32-bit.

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Here, I found this:

WindowBlinds and Google Chrome

September 3, 2008 by Draginol on Opinionated techie

"The bad news is that Google's recently released web browser, Google Chrome doesn't play well with WindowBlinds. It works but it's visually messed up looking.

The good news is that we have it it working internally but are working through some remaining issues.

I love the new browser though I'm not sure I'm in love with their coding implementation.

The upcoming WindowBlinds 6.3 will support Google Chrome. Right now, changing skins while it's loaded still has to be dea..."

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Neil Banfield

Join Date 04/2001

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It looks like your machine does not support Aero. On machines without Aero support you will find Google Chrome will use its own UI for titlebars as it does on XP. Only when the DWM is running (which can only happen on an Aero Capable PC) will it use the OS skin.

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WB skins IE and Firefox, and you're telling me it can't skin Chrome? How soon is this supposed to be rectified? I *love* GC, but the default blue is atrocious. I was so excited to read that 6.3 was supposed to have fixed this, but now..... *le sigh*. I am going to look into the DWM tweak to get Aero running on Home Basic. I wonder if this will work.

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Neil Banfield

Join Date 04/2001

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This isn't a bug in WB. It is a feature of Google Chrome.

If you do the trick on your PC to allow the DWM to run then WB will skin Google Chrome titlebars as Google Chrome then allows apps like WB to do the correct thing.

Having said that we did discover something interesting which may allow WB to skin those titlebars at some point in the future if we add specific per application code. However the number of users who have non DWM capable machines and running Vista is fairly small.

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hey.. before Chrome used to use that default blue UI which is still okie by since it was useable.. Now dunno why but Chrome uses the skin i loaded with WB 6.3 build 112. That is kewl right not exactly.. what happens is Chrome's address bar in maximized mode gets skinned as the title bar and nothing can be read from the address bar. and when in restore window its useable and improperly skinned.. my question is with DWN on (but i keep the service THEMES always DISABLED) how can i make sure Chrome loads its own skin as in WinXP. Moreover i added Chrome to exception list in WB but no avail. Only soultion is to start Chrome with CTRL pressed. Help

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ZubaZ

Join Date 11/2001

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"Nothing on earth is forcing you to install the beta versions. It can get rough on the bleeding edge. "

-- Kris Kwilas, 'Essays on Mind and Matter/

Oh wait . . it's out of beta.

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What about XP Chrome users? Any hope for the future? Or are we stuck with a choice between fast browsing and skinned browser?

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WindowBlinds 7.01 user on Windows XP

Chrome does not really have a platform for WindowBlinds to skin, except for a few areas. For me, WB only skins the menus, leaving scrollbars, buttons, radio controls and checkboxes, text boxes and drop-down arrows in an ugly Windows Classic style. I'm actually using a skin intended for Linux that gives Chrome ClearLooks style scrollbars, as a cheap fix.

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