Top 7 C++ Acrylic Projects

TranslucentTB

92 14,333 9.1 C++

A lightweight utility that makes the Windows taskbar translucent/transparent.

Project mention: I had to do it. | /r/pcmasterrace | 2023-06-02

Take a look at TranslucentTB. It makes your taskbar see through. Your icons are still there like normal, but the white bar itself is gone. This makes any desktop look way better imo.

DWMBlurGlass

2 1,177 8.9 C++

Add custom effect to global system title bar, support win10 and win11.

Project mention: MicaForEveryone VS DWMBlurGlass - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/MicaForEveryone | 2024-03-14

It’s in my opinion a better alternative to MicaForEveryone. It is much more customizable and isn’t limited to display on 1 active window.

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
ExplorerBlurMica

8 935 6.7 C++

Add background Blur effect or Acrylic (Mica for win11) effect to explorer for win10 and win11

Project mention: Get an acrylic and mica effect in Windows 10 Explorer using ExplorerBlurMica | /r/desktops | 2023-04-30

ExplorerBlurMica Tool: https://github.com/Maplespe/ExplorerBlurMica

TranslucentFlyouts

7 705 8.1 C++

Translucent effect for most of the win32 flyouts

Project mention: Front-end for Windows32 Context Menu Customization | /r/madeinpython | 2023-10-10

I've been working on a GUI program called Translucent Flyouts Config; it is a companion application for Translucent Flyouts for Windows 10/11, which allows various customizations for windows32 style context menus. I used PyQt6 for the same. I've made quite some progress in 3 months.

AcrylicMenus

7 589 4.2 C++

Acrylic effect for all existing Win32 context menus
ExplorerFrame

1 53 10.0 C++

ExplorerFrame is a program that resolves some improper behaviors caused by File Explorer regarding extending DWM frames into its client area.
QStyleHelper

1 28 1.3 C++

A Helper class for managing QStyle, QPalette, TitleBar Color on Windows and auto detect color scheme changes.
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).