Title bars not showing correctly (especially Thunderbird)

Groupy? Windowblinds?

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I have tried several themes, but continue to have trouble with titlebars not rendering correctly. In many of my windows, only a small sliver of the title bar is displayed. That makes it extremely difficult to grab and move the window or to click the X and close it, as I have to be accurate within a couple of pixels. 

 

I did have problems with Chrome, but understand that's an issue with it drawing the bar itself. I read through the forums, followed suggestions, and Chrome is fine. But Mozilla Thunderbird seems to do the same thing. I think it's drawing its own bar as well. With Windowblinds installed, there are no controls in the upper right corner at all (I have to just guess where to click to minimize) and trying to turn on the dropdown menus or work with additional tabs just doesn't work I'm attaching a screenshot. You'll see there are no min/max/close buttons and the "Options" tab is still showing even though I actually just closed it. 

I am only running Windowblinds, Groupy, and Start X. I did check to ensure I had the latest versions installed. Windows 10 Pro. I'm currently using the Corporate theme by Danioc.

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

I have forwarded your report to the Stardock support team for their review and recommendations.

Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates.

We really do appreciate your feedback, thanks.

AzDude
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Update on Thunderbird:

It is possible to stop Thunderbird from painting over the title bar. This does not fix the first issue I pointed out with the min/max/close buttons barely showing in the upper right, but it does fix the problem with garbled menu, tabs, and the big black rectangle that stretches all the way across the top of the window. These instructions found on the Mozilla site resolved those problems:

 

Press Alt or F10 to restore the menu bar in case it's hidden.

Then Tools > Options > Advanced > General tab. Click 'Config Editor' there. Copy and paste mail.tabs.drawInTitlebar into the search bar and double-click on it to set it to "false" and the title bar should be controlled by the OS again.

 

Changing the value from true to false fixed it immediately.

I am attaching a screenshot of the mostly fixed Thunderbird title bar with the SecondCopy title bar correctly displaying just behind it. A lot of my programs have this same clipped title bar like Thunderbird, which others display correctly like SecondCopy.

 

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. When you found any application that does not work properly with Windowblinds applied. You can always exclude that application from Windowblinds. Thunderbird is one of such application. I exclude it from Windowblinds in my system.

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.