[SOLVED] Strange highlighting issue in chrome menus after updates

mcloaked · 2014-07-26 08:22:02

After the following pacman updates I have an odd issue on 4 separate machines when running the chrome browser:

[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded colord (1.2.0-1 -> 1.2.1-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded coreutils (8.22-4 -> 8.23-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded curl (7.37.0-1 -> 7.37.1-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded gcc-libs (4.9.0-5 -> 4.9.1-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded gnutls (3.3.5-1 -> 3.3.6-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded ffmpeg (1:2.2.4-3 -> 1:2.2.5-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded gcc (4.9.0-5 -> 4.9.1-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded git (2.0.2-1 -> 2.0.3-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded glib-perl (1.304-2 -> 1.305-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded pango-perl (1.225-2 -> 1.226-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded gtk2-perl (1.249-2 -> 1.2492-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [ALPM] warning: /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc installed as /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.pacnew
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded kdebase-workspace (4.11.10-2 -> 4.11.11-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded libltdl (2.4.2-13 -> 2.4.2-14)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded libtool (2.4.2-13 -> 2.4.2-14)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded libxext (1.3.2-1 -> 1.3.3-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded perl-net-http (6.06-2 -> 6.07-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded php (5.5.14-1 -> 5.5.15-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded php-apache (5.5.14-1 -> 5.5.15-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded php-fpm (5.5.14-1 -> 5.5.15-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded php-gd (5.5.14-1 -> 5.5.15-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded postgresql-libs (9.3.4-2 -> 9.3.5-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded qrencode (3.4.3-1 -> 3.4.4-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded telepathy-qt (0.9.3-8 -> 0.9.4-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded thunderbird (24.6.0-1 -> 31.0-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded thunderbird-i18n-en-gb (24.6.0-1 -> 31.0-1)
[2014-07-26 09:05] [PACMAN] upgraded youtube-dl (2014.07.21-1 -> 2014.07.24-1)

The issue appears when clicking on a menu item from the top of chrome, and if there is a list then the blue highlighting of each item as the cursor moves down only highlights every second item instead of every item as normal.

I have had this happen in the past but was unsure which package was the culprit. I don't know from the above list which package update may have been responsible, but since the same effect has been seen on 4 different machines I presume it is likely kdebase-workspace? This is with KDE as the desktop environment, and with all packages up to date. Has anyone else seen this issue and if so is there a workaround or is it a known bug. It is an odd one to google for but presumably I am not the only one who has seen this issue. The version of chrome is chrome stable google-chrome 36.0.1985.125-1

Thanks.

Last edited by mcloaked (2014-08-21 16:46:50)

Pse · 2014-07-26 18:15:14

I am experiencing something slightly different in Chromium (still wrong though). I think these issues are related to the change from Gtk to Chrome's built-in UI.

grandtheftjiujitsu · 2014-07-26 19:40:44

I had a similar experience recently as well (though with Chromium). Clicking a menu and hovering over an item caused the item (background and text) to be bleached white. I suspected Gtk initially but it seemed to resolve itself for me. I checked my recent updates and the only things of note were a couple xorg-server and video driver updates.

mcloaked · 2014-07-26 20:49:35

Pse wrote:

I am experiencing something slightly different in Chromium (still wrong though). I think these issues are related to the change from Gtk to Chrome's built-in UI.

In my case chrome was working normally prior to the pacman updates that I listed, and then changed as in my first post as soon as the updates were installed. I did check that rebooting made no difference. But since it was working before the updates and chrome itself was not updated I was puzzled as to the cause.

jrmrjnck · 2014-07-27 15:52:09

I'm also seeing the same menu issue. Not only that, but the chromium performance in general is terrible when the window is maximized in KDE. Pages take a long time to load, tabs switch slowly, text highlighting is slow, all javascript driven stuff is slow. Only when the browser window is maximized and only in KDE.

martinc2 · 2014-07-29 15:44:41

I have exactly the same issue as mcloaked. Downgrading to kdebase-workspace-4.11.10-2 resolves it, so (as suspected) the issue lies with kdebase-workspace. I don't know how to triage better than this, though!

starthis · 2014-08-17 08:56:11

Thanks martinc2, downgrading kdebase-workspace resolved the issue for now.

mcloaked · 2014-08-17 09:22:45

I wonder if it is worth trying to get some diagnostics and putting in an upstream kde bug report? However I am not sure what diagnostics I can get for this issue in terms of a log file?

qwerty12 · 2014-08-21 00:01:55

I have no idea what the root cause is but if you turn off compositing (Alt+Shift+F12), it'll stop. You can use the Window Rules KCM to make a rule that'll automatically stop/start compositing when Chromium is started. Sadly, this is a poor workaround as you lose all the niceties that compositing brings You can also change KWin's render mode from OpenGL to Raster but that's too intrusive for me - I'd rather just disable compositing as a whole. I'm using a laptop with an HD4000 set to use the default SNA acceleration.

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mcloaked · 2014-08-21 09:17:00

Yes you are right - Alt-Shift-F12 works around the problem with the alternating highlighting. Maybe a bug needs to be filed against kdebase-workspace? As you say this workaround takes away the nice features of desktop effects.

Edit: Reported upstream at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338434

and at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41647

If anyone can add input to the two bugs it would be helpful.

Last edited by mcloaked (2014-08-21 09:43:07)

mcloaked · 2014-08-21 15:55:50

There is now progress on this - check the kde bug report referenced above.

qwerty12 · 2014-08-21 16:11:46

It's much appreciated for taking the time to open that bug. Indeed, after running the commands given there in #5, I can now run Chromium without turning off compositing.

martinc2 · 2014-08-21 16:32:16

Hooray! I can confirm the fix on the kde bug works for me too. Thanks mcloaked!

mcloaked · 2014-08-21 16:48:19

I am marking this as solved here in this thread although I will wait to see if there is an upstream fix in an updated kdebase-workspace package before closing the upstream bug report, and the arch flyspray report.

Edit: The upstream bugs are now closed.

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Neky · 2014-08-22 19:10:18

Just upgraded to KDE 4.14. and this is still working poorly. I've searched the Arch rollback machine for that particular kdebase-workspace version with no luck. Anyone with a direct link?

mcloaked · 2014-08-22 19:56:31

A new version kdebase-workspace-4.11.11-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz was pushed to the mirrors this evening at just before 1800.

Last edited by mcloaked (2014-08-22 19:57:04)

mcloaked · 2014-08-23 07:24:41

Neky, the previous version of the package is available in the Arch Rollback machine archive at http://seblu.net/a/arm/packages/k/kdebase-workspace/

4.11.10-2 appears about 11 lines down the list.

Neky · 2014-08-23 10:30:41

Hey, thanks for digging that link up for me, I was trying to find the package by month/week/day which is tiresome. Seems like the yesterdays second update (around 6pm) to that package fixed everything.

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