Software Rounded Borders

[EunSoo]

--Forgive me if this is in the wrong sub, I wasn't quite sure where it should go--

 

Hi! I have an XPS 13 (3200x1800 screen) and I have been messing around with the Stylish plugin in Chrome by making websites have a more rounded look to them (I like that design) like this:

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And when I was watching a Floatplane vid that had this rounded plugin enabled, it really brought everything together because the rounded borders on a fulscreen paired with the rounded edges of the XPS look great together.

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This may not be possible, but I really want to add a software rounded edge like you see on phones, like the s8 and pixel 2. I doubt that there is a program built to do this exact thing but if you can think of a program that might have the capability to do this, let me know! Maybe something that can add an overlay on top of everything or any other program that I could manipulate to to this. Thanks!

[Enderman]

Rainmeter can be made to keep an image or shape on top, even in fullscreen.

All you need is just a transparent PNG with blacked out rounded corners.

[EunSoo]

8 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Rainmeter can be made to keep an image or shape on top, even in fullscreen.

All you need is just a transparent PNG with blacked out rounded corners.

Great suggestion. I had to set the image width to 1423 for it to scale with my display properly and because of that the edges look a little blurry but I got it set up. It looks like rainmeter isn't running at native 3200x1800. For now, that's fine as I don't think I'll notice it too much unless I pixel-peep. Thanks!

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, SCGazelle said:

Great suggestion. I had to set the image width to 1423 for it to scale with my display properly and because of that the edges look a little blurry but I got it set up. It looks like rainmeter isn't running at native 3200x1800. For now, that's fine as I don't think I'll notice it too much unless I pixel-peep. Thanks!

That's probably because you have windows scaling at something other than 100%, rainmeter behaves just like any other program and gets scaled.

Try doing this to bypass the windows scaling and that way you can use a 3200x1800 image and it should look way better:

 

[EunSoo]

4 hours ago, Enderman said:

That's probably because you have windows scaling at something other than 100%, rainmeter behaves just like any other program and gets scaled.

Try doing this to bypass the windows scaling and that way you can use a 3200x1800 image and it should look way better:

 

You're amazing. One last issue: So for the position I have it set as 'Stay Topmost' which does so but when I have a video in the default 'Movies & TV' windows app running, it goes over the rainmeter overlay. Do you happen to know of any way to either force rainmeter above or the app below? I might just switch to a different video player that windows won't push to the top if that's the best fix to the issue.

[Enderman]

17 minutes ago, SCGazelle said:

You're amazing. One last issue: So for the position I have it set as 'Stay Topmost' which does so but when I have a video in the default 'Movies & TV' windows app running, it goes over the rainmeter overlay. Do you happen to know of any way to either force rainmeter above or the app below? I might just switch to a different video player that windows won't push to the top if that's the best fix to the issue.

Huh, that's the first program I've seen yet that actually goes on top of it...

I guess it's a windows thing, no idea if there's a way around it.

Doesn't happen with photo viewer or anything else.

[EunSoo]

15 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Huh, that's the first program I've seen yet that actually goes on top of it...

I guess it's a windows thing, no idea if there's a way around it.

Doesn't happen with photo viewer or anything else.

I guess it's time to get VLC. Anyways, thanks for all the help!