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erfu

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Registered: 2013-05-11

Posts: 2

Xfce, no window borders in some themes

Hello,

I'm running Xfce with "Greybird" theme. Recently the window borders on the left, right and bottom sides disappeared. I am now unable to resize windows by dragging these edges. (The top border is still there, and dragable.) I am wondering what caused it, and how to fix it.

After they disappeared, I tried switching to other themes. "Greybird Compact" displays working borders. "Default-4.8" has the exact same problem, with no borders on left, right and bottom sides. I am not sure if Default-4.8 was like that before, because I've never used it. Other than Greybird and Default-4.8, all my themes seem to have working borders.

Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/eXgb5

Any tips would be much appreciated! I would like to get Greybird working with dragable borders again.

Last edited by erfu (2014-02-23 12:28:45)

toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 513

Re: Xfce, no window borders in some themes

Do you have an nvidia card and are you using the nvidia driver? If so, you might be affected by https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54168. Another related thread here.

And according to https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31323, the greybird author added a workaround to the newer versions of greybird, you might want to try installing aur/xfce-theme-greybird-git.

erfu

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Registered: 2013-05-11

Posts: 2

Re: Xfce, no window borders in some themes

Thank you! It is indeed an nvidia card (old 7800) with nvidia legacy drivers. The bugs you linked to match mine exactly, as I also discovered I have this title problem depicted in the bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=66246

Now that I know it is a driver issue, I will just live with Greybird Compact or another functional theme. I tried to switch to the git package of Greybird, but that did not help.

jakub

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Registered: 2013-09-14

Posts: 151

Re: Xfce, no window borders in some themes

Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/eXgb5

I'm encountering the same problem right now (being logged as regular user or root).

xorg-server 1.16.2-1
nvidia-304xx 304.123-9
xfwm4 4.10.1-1

In my case there is no decoration on left and right side of window (and I can't resize). Decoration on top and bottom is present (and window is resizeable by dragging it's decoration).

I just don't believe how many problems I have recently with arch

Last edited by jakub (2014-11-19 20:50:49)