Perhaps you have seen those beautiful, configurable and often animated borders on Hyprland and wished that something similar existed on Windows 10/11.
With tacky-borders‘ upcoming version 1.0 you can get a good number of those features on Windows.
The software can be configured through a yaml file and allows customization of the border thickness, radius, colors, animation and allows application-specific overrides for a number of settings to make sure the borders are properly aligned on applications like Chrome-based browsers.
tacky-borders allows for the “spin” animation, which can be combined with a gradient color setting to create a nice looking RGB crawl around the active window.
Previously I have been using Komorebi’s own implementation, which had a few drawbacks. The border was not as configurable, it was quite pixelated and there was a notable delay when switching between windows. tacky-borders solves all of those issues.
While these features may sound tacky (no pun intended!) to you, having a configurable visual indicator for the active window is incredibly handy in an age where applications render their own titlebars (or lack them altogether). It brings an element of visual clarity, which I highly appreciate.
