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gpui: Enable per-pixel, GPU composited transparency on Windows (#26645)
Move the SetLayeredWindowAttributes call to immediately after window
construction, and initialize it with per-pixel transparency settings, no
color key and no global blending. The render pipeline will perform alpha
blending during compositing.

Cleaned up the DWM acrylic API calls some, to explicitly set to the
three appropriate modes depending on opaque, transparent or blurred
settings. The API internally hides versioning concerns from the caller.

Set the window class background color to black, this prevents a
flashbang on slow startup, e.g. debug builds on a heavily loaded system.

The outcome is that the window no longer receives paint demands for
underlying window updates, while also having per-pixel transparency -
opaque theme elements are now correctly opaque. The transparency
settings are now portable across windows and macOS having mostly similar
outcomes (modulo palette differences). Small fonts may still appear to
be alpha blended - this seems to be in the glyph atlas, their pixels are
not actually opaque. Larger fonts (or higher DPIs) don't suffer this and
are as opaque as expected. Layering the window atop one that is
rendering at 120fps, the editor window can drop to its 8fps idle state,
while still being composited with 120fps alpha blend in the background,
in both blur and transparent modes.

Updates #20400

Release Notes:

- Improved transparency on Windows to be more efficient, support fully
opaque elements and more closely match other platforms.
2025-04-10 21:27:19 +00:00
.cargo nix: Clean up build (#27881) 2025-04-01 22:35:15 +00:00
.cloudflare docs: Document context servers (#21170) 2024-11-25 11:05:14 -05:00
.config workspace-hack: remove openssl from remote_server (#27990) 2025-04-03 00:49:07 +00:00
.github Update actions/dependency-review-action digest to 67d4f4b (#28450) 2025-04-09 14:23:48 -06:00
.zed debugger: Start on tabless design (#27837) 2025-04-03 16:11:14 +00:00
assets debugger: Add breakpoint list (#28496) 2025-04-10 18:18:58 +00:00
crates gpui: Enable per-pixel, GPU composited transparency on Windows (#26645) 2025-04-10 21:27:19 +00:00
docs docs: Prefer bin/rails when running Rails tests (#28167) 2025-04-10 17:46:12 +00:00
extensions chore: Bump Rust edition to 2024 (#27800) 2025-03-31 20:55:27 +02:00
legal legal: Terms of Use (2025-02-13) (#24803) 2025-02-13 09:41:43 -05:00
nix nix: Fix the cargo-bundle override (#28061) 2025-04-03 23:15:49 +00:00
script Fix typo in symbolicate script (#28456) 2025-04-09 20:55:10 -06:00
tooling Merge Component and ComponentPreview trait (#28365) 2025-04-08 16:09:06 -06:00
.git-blame-ignore-revs Add additional git-blame-ignore-revs (#27189) 2025-03-20 09:17:56 -04:00
.gitattributes Prevent GitHub from displaying comments within JSON files as errors (#7043) 2024-01-29 23:11:25 -05:00
.gitignore Add scripts and configuration for building snap package (#25064) 2025-02-19 10:28:23 -07:00
.mailmap Add myself (Ben Kunkle) and Smit to the mailmap (#25590) 2025-02-25 19:55:39 +00:00
Cargo.lock install_cli: Show feedback when installing CLI from welcome screen (#28532) 2025-04-11 01:47:40 +05:30
Cargo.toml Bump rustls (#28531) 2025-04-10 14:04:34 -06:00
clippy.toml chore: Fix some violations of 'needless_pass_by_ref_mut' lint (#18795) 2024-10-07 01:29:58 +02:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md Remove community content from docs and point to zed.dev (#19895) 2024-10-29 09:44:58 -04:00
compose.yml Add Postgrest to Docker Compose (#16498) 2024-08-19 20:50:45 -04:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Allow icon themes to provide their own file associations (#24926) 2025-02-15 00:35:13 +00:00
Cross.toml Add remote server cross compilation (#19136) 2024-10-12 23:23:56 -07:00
debug.plist WIP 2023-12-14 09:25:14 -07:00
default.nix Fix nix build (#26270) 2025-03-10 01:06:11 -07:00
docker-compose.sql collab: Setup database for LLM service (#15882) 2024-08-06 17:18:08 -04:00
Dockerfile-collab chore: Bump Rust version to 1.86 (#28021) 2025-04-03 23:32:50 +02:00
Dockerfile-collab.dockerignore ci: Move collab to Dockerfile-collab (#18515) 2024-09-30 16:14:26 -04:00
Dockerfile-cross Add remote server cross compilation (#19136) 2024-10-12 23:23:56 -07:00
Dockerfile-cross.dockerignore Add remote server cross compilation (#19136) 2024-10-12 23:23:56 -07:00
Dockerfile-distros Support More Linux (#18480) 2024-09-30 17:46:21 -04:00
Dockerfile-distros.dockerignore Support More Linux (#18480) 2024-09-30 17:46:21 -04:00
flake.lock Bump cargo-bundle and cargo-about version in nix (#27803) 2025-03-31 13:33:00 -07:00
flake.nix nix: Separate debug output (#27871) 2025-04-01 14:19:10 -07:00
LICENSE-AGPL Update license year (#24191) 2025-02-04 09:02:59 -05:00
LICENSE-APACHE Update license year (#24191) 2025-02-04 09:02:59 -05:00
LICENSE-GPL Licenses: change license fields in Cargo.toml to AGPL-3.0-or-later. (#5535) 2024-01-27 13:51:16 +01:00
livekit.yaml Add LiveKit server to Docker Compose (#7907) 2024-02-16 10:49:48 -05:00
Procfile Refactor: Restructure collab main function to prepare for new subcommand: serve llm (#15824) 2024-08-05 12:07:38 -07:00
Procfile.postgrest Fix llm queries (#16006) 2024-08-08 17:21:38 -07:00
README.md Format READMEs (#17454) 2024-09-05 15:39:16 -04:00
renovate.json renovate: Ignore Cargo.toml for workspace-hack (#27976) 2025-04-02 23:24:46 +00:00
rust-toolchain.toml chore: Bump Rust version to 1.86 (#28021) 2025-04-03 23:32:50 +02:00
shell.nix Fix nix build (#26270) 2025-03-10 01:06:11 -07:00
typos.toml docs: Update system requirements (#28504) 2025-04-10 14:18:12 +00:00

Zed

CI

Welcome to Zed, a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.


Installation

Packaging status

On macOS and Linux you can download Zed directly or install Zed via your local package manager.

Other platforms are not yet available:

Developing Zed

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for ways you can contribute to Zed.

Also... we're hiring! Check out our jobs page for open roles.

Licensing

License information for third party dependencies must be correctly provided for CI to pass.

We use cargo-about to automatically comply with open source licenses. If CI is failing, check the following:

  • Is it showing a no license specified error for a crate you've created? If so, add publish = false under [package] in your crate's Cargo.toml.
  • Is the error failed to satisfy license requirements for a dependency? If so, first determine what license the project has and whether this system is sufficient to comply with this license's requirements. If you're unsure, ask a lawyer. Once you've verified that this system is acceptable add the license's SPDX identifier to the accepted array in script/licenses/zed-licenses.toml.
  • Is cargo-about unable to find the license for a dependency? If so, add a clarification field at the end of script/licenses/zed-licenses.toml, as specified in the cargo-about book.