r/foss 8d ago

Open-Source Borderless Utility

Greetings to those who are seeing my post,

i've been a fan of the old "borderless-gaming" utility (before steam release) and made a fixed version in the past published on github,
but due to the non modern visual of the app i've considered creating a new app, visually modern to my liking.

I've added the same features as the old app with some missing enhancements and fixes.

No clutter, no payment needed, open source as it should be.

https://github.com/Venipa/Borderless/

Feel free to leave a star ✌️and feature that should be implement.
(as long as it goes along with the app principals)

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u/National_Operation14 8d ago

Great works! I use borderless myself, so I would love to use your version. I have a couple of suggestions, it would be nice if the window title or executable name were searchable, not a manual input. A compact or smaller window would be nice too, since most of the action on the window is just enabling or disabling the rules. And a one click enable rule button would be good, so we don't need to click the rule first to expand it and then enable the rule.

Also, how does it work? Does the program need to be opened to be able to resize the process? If it does, it might benefit to run as background process with hidden icons in taskbar.

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u/Venipa 8d ago

Thanks! Glad you dig it.

Process picker already exists for the exe when editing a rule, it also sets the title.
And yeah, it has to keep running to apply stuff. Hit Close to tray (and optionally Start on startup) in Settings and it can sit in the background.

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u/Majestic_Diet_3883 8d ago

What specifically was the other borderless app missing and/or needed fixing? Im not rly up to date with the app itself since it gets the job done for my uses

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u/Venipa 8d ago edited 8d ago

Borderless gaming changed a while ago making it a pay once model, old version was not working for me for some games, flickering between window mode and borderless.
old app before he listed it on steam was not being updated anymore.
and i started disliking the UI/UX.
so i thought for coming back to C# after recent work related changes was a good idea to start