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justasug

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Registered: 2014-08-03

Posts: 174

[SOLVED] No window border with Openbox

After updating to the latest gtk3 version (gtk3 3.16.3-2), all the gtk3 application windows lost their window border. Now they can't be resized anymore.
My window manager is Openbox, but I tested it with Xfce's window manager too. Same issue, but only when the compositor is turned off.

Can other Openbox users confirm this? Downgrading gtk3 to an earlier version (3.16.2) fixed it, at least for now.

EDIT: gtk3 3.16.4 fixed this.

Last edited by justasug (2015-06-11 12:30:06)

ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,634

Re: [SOLVED] No window border with Openbox

Recenty, GTK3 applications have started drawing their own window decorations. It has something to do with how things are done in Wayland, and I strongly oppose it, as this causes a lot of issues with non-GNOME working environments using GTK applications.

And, yes, I can confirm that. My guess is that GTK3 applications now tell the WM not to draw any window decorations. In case of Openbox, this results in a 0-pixel border.

EDIT
There is gtk3-nocsd in the AUR that is apparently supposed to disable client-side decorations in GTK3 applications. However I haven't managed to make it work (Openbox still doesn't draw its own window decorations around GTK3 applications).

Last edited by ayekat (2015-05-15 12:49:14)

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justasug

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Registered: 2014-08-03

Posts: 174

Re: [SOLVED] No window border with Openbox

I have also tried gtk3-nocsd, without any success. Maybe it's for the better, because it seems like a hacky workaround causing additional issues.

For now I have opened a bug report on the GNOME bug tracker:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749451
Hopefully they'll look into it and fix it.