[SOLVED] i3bar display issue

Yann · 2018-04-09 13:29:49

Hi everyone,
I use Arch Linux (4.15.15-1-ARCH) with the i3wm (i3-gaps-next-git package). 3 or 4 days ago my i3bar got a display issue, all the characters look very pixelated or blurred:

I uninstalled and reinstalled i3-gaps-next-git, change the position of the i3bar to the bottom, did all the upgrades, same issue. The dmenu appears at the same position (top) and has no problem.
I guess this is a bug related to an update of one of the packages related to the i3bar. However, the only packages I found that have been updated recently related to i3 were python2-i3-py and python-i3-py and they are not installed on my system.

Does someone get an idea?

Thank you for your time.

Last edited by Yann (2018-04-09 14:59:34)

lo1 · 2018-04-09 14:00:00

Are you using compton and did you get the mesa 18 update?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=236058
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=236008
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104597
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/ … 68492.html

P.S. please post only thumbnails or link to images when posting to the board.

Last edited by lo1 (2018-04-09 14:01:56)

Yann · 2018-04-09 14:42:52

Thanks a lot for your reactivity lo1.

Your answer is very useful.

I do use compton (0.1_beta2.5-10) and I do have mesa (18.0.0-2) updated Fri 06 Apr 2018.

I don't have a /etc/driconf file. Then I add this code

<application name="compton" executable="compton">
    <option name="allow_rgb10_configs" value="false"/>
</application>

to my /etc/drirc (I got no changes after refreshing i3), but everything is SOLVED after rebooting!

Thanks!

PS: Is my image thumbnail well (is it for low connections?)? Could you explain me quickly what was the issue? (compton change the way to encode the color from 8 to 10 bit?)

Last edited by Yann (2018-04-09 14:55:04)

lo1 · 2018-04-09 15:08:50

You're welcome.

Thumbnails shouldn't be larger than 250x250 nor bigger than 50kb, that's all.

The issue is partly due to how mesa 18 handles rgb rendering, 10bpc seems not well supported by compton thus you need that tweak to keep "8bit rendering".

Sorry I can't explain this any better, but someone made me figured this out yesterday and I didn't even know it was compton to fix and not mesa itself.

Yann · 2018-04-09 18:08:34

Thanks lo1.

My problem is solved.

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[SOLVED] i3bar display issue

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