Problems with unreadable text in new windows 11 file explorer

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Hello, since i installed windows 11, i have had trouble with groupy in the file explorer, file explorer now uses the mica effect for the explorer title bar and background, but groupy seems to think the titlebar is using my accent colour (which is dark blue) which is making the text and buttons white.

heres a video https://gfycat.com/unkemptethicalemperorshrimp

note the inactive tab text, add tab button and the 3 dot button. when i choose navy blue, its white when the window is active making it extremely hard to read.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. But, I don't see your issue on my system.


Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

well thats very odd, ive reinstalled groupy just to make sure and the problem persists, my version is 1.5 aswell

Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Please try purge and reinstall steps as mentioned here: [link]. Just make sure to redownload the latest version from your account. Reboot after the purged. Reinstall, and Reboot again after the installation. Retest it. Report back here.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

hmmm i followed those steps to the letter, sadly im still experiencing the same problem.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

ok tried that. at first i thought it was working, but then i enabled "show accent color on title bars and window borders" and it broke again.

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Ok, I can reproduce this, I have forward your problem/question to Stardock Support Team for their assistance. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates. We appreciate your feedback and patience.

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

thats good, glad you managed to replicate the problem. thank you for forwarding that.

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having trouble.

I have placed an internal ticket to have the dev team review.

Internal ref: ODNT-2690

Thanks for the report.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm having the same issue. When settings are set to "Combine if Possible". Also the Navigation Bar turns Black.  "Always Place Above" seems to working fine.

Combine if Possible

 

Always Place Above

Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top

Same here on Win11.  And if the windows is active, the left tab overwrites the rounding.   The text color on inactive tabs are white and unreadable.  

Inactive windows looks better.

Single tab with no painted tab, also unreadable.

1 Simply offset the left tab a few pixels to then right to fix the rounding.

2 Why is the no accent color on active window, active tab?

3 How do I get correct text color?

 

Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top

OK, that shows that Groupy  assumes that the titlebar use accent colours when it in fact does not, when this setting is on.   And render white text.

This is a logic error.

 

Reply #16 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm tankful to you for showing what they do wrong, but this is no solution, just a workaround.   

Since this is a setting I really want on, Groupy must wait until Stardock solves the issue.

Reply #17 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting tom449, reply 14



OK, that shows that Groupy  assumes that the titlebar use accent colours when it in fact does not, when this setting is on.   And render white text.

This is a logic error.

 
End of tom449's quote

The issue is explorer titlebars have always followed the OS titlebar colour until Win11.

Groupy 1.x is designed for Windows 10 where this remains the case.