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aki42

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Registered: 2020-10-24

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Some windows become whiter with mouse over and eventually white out.

Hi.

I'm just bought chromebook and starting to use xfce4 under crouton.
So maybe it isn't the right place to ask about but...

As I titled as "some windows become whiter with mouse over and eventually white out", it's like below.

https://twitter.com/Inqb8tr_jp/status/1 … 58/photo/1
Affected windows are guitarix, thunar, the Preference window of xfce4-terminal and so on.

I went xfce4-setting-manager -> Window Manager Tweaks -> Compositor and
set Opacity parameters as full Opaque.

Are there any place to change prameters?

Please give me some advice to address the problem.

Best regards,
Aki

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: Some windows become whiter with mouse over and eventually white out.

Which version of Xfce are you running?

Which Appearance (GTK) theme is currently selected? Does changing the Appearance theme make a difference?

Does disabling the compositor help?

What video card do you have and which driver are you using?

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aki42

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Re: Some windows become whiter with mouse over and eventually white out.

Xfce version is 4.14 from ubuntu focal.
I use Greybird-dark Style.
I tried other themes with gtk-theme-switch, but no good.
Unchecking "Enable display compositing" also have no difference or worse.
The window of Window Manager Tweaks is getting whiter with unchecking.

Thanks.

ToZ

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Re: Some windows become whiter with mouse over and eventually white out.

What do the following commands return:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName
xfwm4 -V
ps -ef | grep xfwm4
ls /usr/share/themes/$(xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName)
lspci -vnk | grep -A12 VGA

What happens if you start guitarx like this:

GTK_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Raleigh/gtk-2.0/gtkrc guitarx

You also mention thunar was a problem but its not in your screenshot. To confirm, is this also happening with thunar? If so, does this help?

thunar -q && GTK_THEME=Adwaita thunar

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aki42

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Re: Some windows become whiter with mouse over and eventually white out.

Good morning from Japan and Thank you.

Here are the output of commands.

(focal)aki@localhost:~/Desktop$ xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName
Greybird-dark

(focal)aki@localhost:~/Desktop$ xfwm4 -V
	This is xfwm4 version 4.14.1 (revision 44809c49) for Xfce 4.14
	Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
	Compiled against GTK+-3.24.17, using GTK+-3.24.20.

	Build configuration and supported features:
	- Startup notification support:                 Yes
	- XSync support:                                Yes
	- Render support:                               Yes
	- Xrandr support:                               Yes
	- Xpresent support:                             Yes
	- Embedded compositor:                          Yes
	- Epoxy support:                                Yes
	- KDE systray proxy (deprecated):               No

(focal)aki@localhost:~/Desktop$ ps -ef | grep xfwm4
aki      11453 11340  1 08:15 ?        00:00:08 xfwm4
aki      16688 11929  0 08:24 pts/4    00:00:00 grep --color=auto xfwm4

(focal)aki@localhost:~/Desktop$ ls /usr/share/themes/$(xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName)
gnome-shell            gtk-2.0  index.theme  plank  xfwm4
Greybird-dark.emerald  gtk-3.0  metacity-1   unity

There's no lspci on crouton linux.

A iPhone screenshot of "GTK_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Raleigh/gtk-2.0/gtkrc guitarix."
https://twitter.com/Inqb8tr_jp/status/1 … 49/photo/1

A iPhone screenshot of "thunar -q && GTK_THEME=Adwaita thunar."
https://twitter.com/Inqb8tr_jp/status/1 … 22/photo/1
A iPhone screenshot of "thunar"
https://twitter.com/Inqb8tr_jp/status/1 … 04/photo/1

What is strange is screenshots of xfce-screenshooter has no problem.
https://twitter.com/Inqb8tr_jp/status/1 … 60/photo/1

Last edited by aki42 (2022-08-27 23:58:04)

ToZ

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Re: Some windows become whiter with mouse over and eventually white out.

What is strange is screenshots of xfce-screenshooter has no problem.
https://twitter.com/Inqb8tr_jp/status/1 … 60/photo/1

Then it must have something to do with your video card if screenshooter is capturing a rendered screen. Perhaps its best to reach out to the Crouton forums and see if the video card is set up properly.

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aki42

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Re: Some windows become whiter with mouse over and eventually white out.

Thank you for your support.
I'll contact to Crouton forums.

Thank you.