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Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

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Post by remix2000 »

Muromec wrote: post #90
remix2000 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You missed my point, which is that all governments exist to oppress by design, it's literally what governments are, they are businesses that monopolize violence. Some people, esp. people of the Western world are too arrogant to admit it. Personally, I would honestly rather trust someone who is aware of that fact over someone who isn't.

Look, I'm as much an enjoyer of Kropotkin and von Mises as the other guy and torched more then zero regional police HQs in my life. You are right in principle, but there is a varying degree to which different governments actually oppress people and there are certain patterns of what to expect from which. I would not trust american company, like msft to not snitch to me to US government either, but the likehood of ran…

> the likehood of random shmuk being coopted is much more likely in one case as opposed to another.

I don't think Russians actually live in fear of the big brother, I wouldn't be friends with so many Russian femboys if that really was the case. But what do I know, it could all be a conspiracy.

Edit: I also don't understand how torching police hqs makes the world a better, more peaceful place. At best, you'll just end up creating another monopoly on violence… @.@

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

#102

Post by green-salt »

3eb7988a1663 wrote: post #47
mattferderer wrote: post #5

Can't speak for this product but disabling a lot of the animations, gradients, shadows & visual effects has made Windows 11 run significantly better on the computers I have it on. They didn't seem to add much value anyways. I'm a fan of a lot of the user experience improvements being made in Windows over the last decade, such as Terminal, running Linux, Power Toys features, screenshots & recording, Paint finally gett…

The Win11 screenshot tool is a travesty. It now takes multiple seconds to initialize, plus additional delay in actually selecting what you want to capture. The previous iteration was instantaneous. I have lost many opportunities to screenshot something from a screen share because of this trash performance.

Pressing Shift+Win+S is pretty instantaneous for taking screenshots, you don't need to open the tool.

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

#103

Post by alisonatwork »

Krssst wrote: post #29
sudopsuedo wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you looked into SimpleWindowSwitcher? https://github.com/sigoden/window-switcher ExplorerPatcher makes it easy to configure in the settings menu, I'm not aware of any other projects that implement SWS: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher It's very fast and can be configured to set window thumbnail size/area

Thank you, I was not aware of either of those. SimpleWindowSwitcher looks like a good alternative, unfortunately on my side I think I would prefer switching between all windows of all apps rather than have two different shortcuts for "switch between windows of the current app" and "switch between apps" (but that's just a personal preference). ExplorerPatcher looks cool too, though patching explorer is probably a no-n…

This change annoyed me too, enough to look up a solution, but not enough to actually install anything to work around it. I have this thread bookmarked, where someone implemented it in AHK, so if you're running that already it might be worth a try: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/classic-alt-tab-reincarnation....

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

#104

Post by electroglyph »

3eb7988a1663 wrote: post #47
mattferderer wrote: post #5

Can't speak for this product but disabling a lot of the animations, gradients, shadows & visual effects has made Windows 11 run significantly better on the computers I have it on. They didn't seem to add much value anyways. I'm a fan of a lot of the user experience improvements being made in Windows over the last decade, such as Terminal, running Linux, Power Toys features, screenshots & recording, Paint finally gett…

The Win11 screenshot tool is a travesty. It now takes multiple seconds to initialize, plus additional delay in actually selecting what you want to capture. The previous iteration was instantaneous. I have lost many opportunities to screenshot something from a screen share because of this trash performance.

alt-prtscn still works to take screenshot of active window instantly

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

#105

Post by emeril »

m417z wrote: post #22

Hi, Windhawk author here. Nice to see it on Hacker News. This is just one Windhawk mod, submitted by a community member. There are hundreds others. Windhawk was created to simplify Windows customization and to make it more accessible, both for developers and users. For a more detailed introduction, check out the Windhawk release blog post: https://ramensoftware.com/windhawk

thank you for making modern windows usable - it has made the transition from xp/7 to 10/11 more tolerable

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

#106

Post by Muromec »

remix2000 wrote: post #101
Muromec wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look, I'm as much an enjoyer of Kropotkin and von Mises as the other guy and torched more then zero regional police HQs in my life. You are right in principle, but there is a varying degree to which different governments actually oppress people and there are certain patterns of what to expect from which. I would not trust american company, like msft to not snitch to me to US government either, but the likehood of ran…

> the likehood of random shmuk being coopted is much more likely in one case as opposed to another. I don't think Russians actually live in fear of the big brother, I wouldn't be friends with so many Russian femboys if that really was the case. But what do I know, it could all be a conspiracy. Edit: I also don't understand how torching police hqs makes the world a better, more peaceful place. At best, you'll just end…

>I don't think Russians actually live in fear of the big brother, I wouldn't be friends with so many Russian femboys if that really was the case.

I'm not sure what it has to do with anything, other than you own ideas about what oppressive governments are up to.

>makes the world a better, more peaceful place.

the chain has to be yanked from time to time, otherwise the thing at the end of it tends to forget you are holding it.

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

#107

Post by neuroelectron »

y-c-o-m-b wrote: post #53
m417z wrote: post #22

Hi, Windhawk author here. Nice to see it on Hacker News. This is just one Windhawk mod, submitted by a community member. There are hundreds others. Windhawk was created to simplify Windows customization and to make it more accessible, both for developers and users. For a more detailed introduction, check out the Windhawk release blog post: https://ramensoftware.com/windhawk

Thanks for making this a safe place to modify Windows in a community-driven fashion. I mentioned it in a comment below, but I use the "Multirow taskbar for Windows 11" mod and it's been a godsend for keeping things more organized as before. I appreciate you and the mod community.

How do you know it's safe?

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

#108

Post by indrora »

kh9000 wrote: post #100

I imagine it would be frustrating to be the windows shell dev who has to investigate the torrent of bizarre memory corruption bugs that inevitably occur on Windhawk users’ machines after major OS updates. There’s really no avoiding it when you detour unstable “implementation detail” sort of functions across the taskbar/systray/start/etc. especially now that c++ coroutines are in widespread usage therein. But to be fa…

From what I've learned: stuff like this makes up a not insignificant portion of the crash reports that come through. This results in crash dumps that are useless at best because they just look like memory corruption or badly written malware. In my discussions with folks about this, an annoying number of people who run this sort of software either a) do not care that it makes developing Windows harder for the devs or b) actively want the usable signal for the Windows development teams to be low.

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

#109

Post by indrora »

sockaddr wrote: post #27
oybng wrote: post #25

It's incredible the effort Windows 10/11 users will go to in order to reach a somewhat functional and reliable computing experience via third party modifications, yet Linux is somehow too much effort. Just look at the instructions on that page..

"but he's sweet sometimes" It's just an abusive relationship and eventually some of them break out of it.

Yeah, that effectively describes my experiences with desktop linux.

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

#110

Post by VerifiedReports »

I've had to return to Windows for my daily work after 20 years mostly away from it. I already knew about a lot of UI and functionality regressions, but when you truly experience the defective mess that Windows has become... it's hard to take.

So while I'd love to install this mod, it seems way too fraught with potential side-effects. But it looks like there might be some minor, safe mods to explore here.

Here's one gallingly dumb thing Windows does now that I wonder if you guys can recommend a fix to: If you hover over an application's icons in the taskbar, it pops up thumbnails of the app's open windows and forces you to choose ONE. WTF. I want to bring ALL of the application's windows to the front. It's incredible that clicking on the application's icon (instead of one thumbnail) doesn't do this. Instead, it does NOTHING. Is there a fix for this?

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