LYNUCENT ❄

Frosted acrylic glass for your VS Code window — one keystroke away.

LYNUCENT gives your editor the frosted-glass look: real Windows DWM acrylic blur behind the window, plus adjustable transparency. The desktop (or your wallpaper) softly shows through, while the editor stays readable.

Features

• ❄ Real acrylic frost — native Windows 10/11 DWM accent blur (not just opacity)
• 🎚 Scroll-free tuning — Alt+X / Alt+C walks the look up and down in small steps
• 📌 Remembers you — your last alpha is stored and auto-applied on every VS Code start
• 🫥 One-click hide — status bar frost chip toggles it instantly
• 🚀 Zero config — works out of the box (Windows only)

Shortcuts

Commands

• LYNUCENT: more glass / less glass / toggle frost
• Settings: lynucent.startAlpha, lynucent.step, lynucent.autoApply, lynucent.pythonPath, lynucent.enginePath

Alpha guide: 255 = solid, ~205 = classic frost, ~190 = heavy glass.

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11 (DWM compositor)
• Python 3 with the bundled engine (frostcode.py) on disk
• The engine path defaults to D:\python\frostcode.py; point lynucent.enginePath elsewhere if you move it

How it works

LYNUCENT talks to the native window compositor via the documented DWM API surface plus the SetWindowCompositionAttribute accent policy — the same mechanism TranslucentTB-class tools use — then applies layered-window alpha. No CSS hacks, no CPU-heavy overlays.

Notes

• Only windows of the editor you are using are frosted
• If a theme/extension fights the translucency, toggle the frost chip and re-apply

Made with ❄ by @fatherofapis — glass everywhere.