(ExplorerPatcher) Taskbar texture not tiling across space between menu

[brendenderp]

Describe the bug

I've included all relevant details in the image but just to put them down in the text.
Openshell: 4.4.194
Windows 11: 24H2 26100.2605

in the taskbar tab, I have the look set to transparent
opacity at 80%
color is set to white.
for the image is set to a small tile of a single vertical segment of texture. (see image)

I've also tried switching from tile to stretch but Ive had no luck.
In case it matters here is the image I'm trying to set as the taskbar texture.

Area of issue

Taskbar

To reproduce

Follow the instructions laid out in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2jkSeqOmEw
at the 10-minute mark, he installs openshell and goes over the setup process.

Expected behavior

Tile or stretch function would work properly

Open-Shell version

4.4.194

Windows version

11 home 24H2

Additional context

No response

[brendenderp]

Just to add some additional details. I tried to workaround the issue by expanding the texture image. This unexpectedly did not work. So I assume the issue is to do with some sort of masking/ issue with rendering? Rather than an issue with the tiling/stretching.

[ge0rdi]

This is different thing than #1546. That issue was related to Win10, this one is about Win11.
Taskbar customizations simply don't work on recent Win11 (because of XAML framework it is using).

Here you are installing ExplorerPatcher that somehow returns original taskbar behavior.
Thus it may be possible to customize taskbar.
But Open-Shell needs some adjustments to be able to detect such state and act accordingly.