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Hi there,
Does someone know from where these borders around application windows are coming from?
Is this a bug in GTK or caused by the program? In this particular case it is the twitter client birdie.
Without compton enabled the border is black and thick: http://i.imgur.com/f6RgtDI.png
With compton enabled basically only the outer border line remains visible: http://i.imgur.com/ggkyd94.png
Last edited by orschiro (2014-02-28 07:04:41)
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It's an argb window, so if you don't have compositing window manager it will be rendered with black background.
I'm guessing you have shadows enabled for compton and that's what is causing the 'outer line' as compton can't determine the shape of an argb window and considers it as a square. You can use compton's shadow-exclude to prevent it from being drawn for birdie.
Or if it's not compton, it could be your window manager drawing the outer border
Last edited by ooo (2014-02-27 14:24:25)
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@ooo
Thanks. I now use the following in ~/.compton.conf:
# Shadow
shadow = true; # Enabled client-side shadows on windows.
no-dock-shadow = true; # Avoid drawing shadows on dock/panel windows.
no-dnd-shadow = true; # Don't draw shadows on DND windows.
clear-shadow = true; # Zero the part of the shadow's mask behind the window. Fix some weirdness with ARGB windows.
shadow-ignore-shaped = true; # Avoid drawing shadow on all shaped windows
detect-rounded-corners = true;
# Disabling shadows for:
shadow-exclude = [
"class_g = 'birdie'"
]This has removed the borders around the windows but GTK3 tooltips still shows some ugly behaviour: http://i.imgur.com/D3hISi2.png
Can I somehow get rid of these as well?
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is that some gnome 3.11 application? that widget looks like the new popover/whatever widget they introduced with it.
I'm not sure if you can disable shadow the same way since it's a widget, not window. I'd go ahead and ask about this in compton's irc channel or github
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Thanks. Birdie is currently refactoring the entire code base. I will wait for the new release and see what has changed then:
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