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Installing a new video driver made the menu backgrounds transparent

Unread post by suzyne » 2024-04-16, 23:49

I installed the latest Windows NVIDIA driver, which allows you to do it while continuing to work and doesn't require restarting the laptop.

Interestingly, after it finished, all menus in Pale Moon had a transparent background. I am using the Maxi4 2.8.2 theme in case that is relevant. Below is what it looked like, I drew the yellow rectangle to make the menu easier to discern.

Restarting Pale Moon resolved the problem. I am not asking for this to be fixed because it is a rare situation and so easily repaired, but I thought it was interesting and looked weird.

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Laptop 1: Windows 11 64-bit, i7 @ 2.80GHz, 16GB, NVIDIA GeForce MX450.
Laptop 2: Windows 10 32-bit, Atom Z3735F @ 1.33GHz, 2GB, Intel HD Graphics.
Laptop 3: Linux Mint 20.3 64-bit, i5 @ 2.5GHz, 8GB, Intel HD Graphics 620.
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Re: Installing a new video driver made the menu backgrounds transparent

Unread post by Moonchild » 2024-04-17, 00:34

suzyne wrote: ↑
2024-04-16, 23:49
 I am not asking for this to be fixed because
It's not something we can "fix" anyway as you're swapping out lower level components from under a running application that is hardware-accelerated. literally not in the same level we operate in.
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