lol, way to go with the hdd crash. do you run win7 now?
and about bbleanskin.. it totally wrecks windows with dwm enabled (which is forced on in win8+).
the reason is that bbleanskin injects a dll which draws into the non-client area (the window frame or "chrome") and dwm disables compositing when an application does that, which leads to loss of transparency and other fun issues.
i'm doing fancy dwm stuff for work this week, maybe i have time to test a few things.
some facts:
- dwm enables applications to do fancy stuff with their borders
- we can detect if an application does fancy non-client area stuff itself
- if it doesn't we can take control of the nc-area and draw fancy stuff there
still, it would be good if we could just find a way to generate msstyles on the fly from bb's style settings and set windows to use these. that would be a very native way to give applications a blackbox-ish look and would be closer to what *nix wms do than what bbleanskin does atm