jansol created
The culprit behind ghost images in transparent windows and bad
performance with blurred windows turns out to be one and the same:
window shadows. The simplest and most popular fix appears to be to
simply disable shadows on non-opaque windows so let's just do that.
Disabling shadows on a window that is already visible however leaves the
shadow on screen, detached from the window, until a full screen effect
such as exposé or a virtual desktop switch wipes it clean. There does
not seem to be any known solution to this, and it does not affect
windows created after switching to a transparent theme so this is a good
enough compromise for now.
Release Notes:
- Fixed ghostly artifacts in transparent window backgrounds.
- Fixed sluggishness with blurred window backgrounds.crates/gpui/src/platform/mac/window.rs | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
@@ -996,6 +996,8 @@ impl PlatformWindow for MacWindow {
};
unsafe {
this.native_window.setOpaque_(opaque);
+ // Shadows for transparent windows cause artifacts and performance issues
+ this.native_window.setHasShadow_(opaque);
let clear_color = if opaque == YES {
NSColor::colorWithSRGBRed_green_blue_alpha_(nil, 0f64, 0f64, 0f64, 1f64)
} else {