Notepad window artifacts, no show document
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I recently did a clean install of Windows 11, (from Win10) I ran Winget Script to install all my favorite apps. I ran Chris Titus utility to slim down some windows features (privacy) I opened notepad++ and it seemed to work, then 2 days later, now notepad++ does not work. I’ve installed other apps, so who knows what could have effected the window. It’s probably a dependency. The first run after install seems ok, then the change log is visible, i resize the window, and the edge changes, but the inside remains (even the scroll bars are still the old size, the text does not change. I close notepad and open notepad, and the screen remains blank. I can open files, click, and see the line, and column change moving through a document, but the document never displays, and the odd scroll bars keeps the same shape when resizing, leaving a copy of each shape when I resize. I have removed and reinstalled several times, with several versions, changed the styles/themes and not changed the styles and themes, removed/cleaned the config data and the same thing keeps happening. Hoping someone else has seen or fixed similar issues, would hate to spend the next month of my life troubleshooting. ~Thanks in advanced!
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@Tom-Stephens said in Notepad window artifacts, no show document:
Hoping someone else has seen or fixed similar issues, would hate to spend the next month of my life troubleshooting.
I doubt you will much joy on this forum. We take an intense dislike to other utilities trying to do what THEY think is right when installing Notepad++. Portable Apps is the main one which features again and again.
Obviously you seem to have a grasp on the fact that the developer isn’t interested in supporting these 3rd party utilities as you haven’t asked that type of question. Actually yours is the first (for a while) of anyone trying one of these utilities.
I haven’t even heard of either utility in regards this forum so nobody else I think will be able to help much.
I note you did mention loading a file and although the file appeared to be loaded (scroll bars working) you got no display of text. That might suggest either the background and foreground colours are the same, or maybe a font that isn’t available, nor it’s backup. Maybe confirm what fonts are actually still available in Windows and select the same one in Notepad++. Without knowing a lot about the utility it’s going to be a process to try and discard ideas until one finally works.
There is an option in Settings, Preferences, MISC. for a “rendering mode”. This has helped some users in the past, but they could already see text, albeit badly rendered. You didn’t mention if menu items are still okay, and even if the drop downs from the menus are visible.
There is an option called “change history” which shows lines which have changed since the file loaded. Try a blank tab, then write something and see if the “orange bar” appears in left margin (which is the default setting, Settings, Preferences, Margins/Border/Edge, Change History).
Terry
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@Terry-R said in Notepad window artifacts, no show document:
I doubt you will much joy on this forum. We take an intense dislike to other utilities trying to do what THEY think is right when installing Notepad++. Portable Apps is the main one which features again and again.
Just so you know, WinGet is Microsoft’s “Windows Package Manager”, and (like chocolatey) just providers a wrapper which automatically downloads and runs the installer. Unlike PortableApps, WinGet does not change the binary – the WinGet manifest for Notepad++ links to Notepad++'s github repo for downloading a specific version.
OTOH, I’ve never head of “Chris Titus utility”, so have no idea whether it just touches “windows features” as claimed, or whether it would interfere with Notepad++ if given the opportunity.
If that “Chris Titus utility” is only “on demand”, and doesn’t touch things between runs, then it would behoove you to try to grab and run a portable Notepad++ without the interference of that utility – and if it consistently works as a portable, then maybe something was corrupted. If so, try re-installing Notpead++, and then, if you can, avoid letting the “Chris Titus utility” touch Notepad++.
i resize the window, and the edge changes, but the inside remains
That sounds similar to the visual artifacts that others have seen when resizing/moving/showing/hiding panels with High DPI monitors. There are still unsolved known issues with HiDPI, and as pointed out here and here, there are also multiple reports of things going wrong with “mixed DPI” multi-monitor setups (a mix of normal and HiDPI monitors) – so if you have a high DPI monitor, or especially if you have a multi-monitor setup where there is a mix of “normal” and “high DPI” monitors, that might be influencing things.
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If you are stating that the 2nd run of Notepad++ shows only white panes, then close Notepad++ and rename the config.xml file in
%appdata%\Notepad++to something else so that Notepad++ will start with default settings. Try renaming the whole Notepad++ folder if a preferred option.Do you still see white panes?
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Thank-you Terry, I turned of the option for DrictWrite in the rendering, and now i can see my documents.
Such a strange option to give me a problem after so may years of using notepad.
Have a great day!
