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ExiaHan

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Registered: 2013-11-10

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[SOLVED] HUGE Black Border In All Apps from Gnome

Hello everyone, my window manager is  Openbox , and after i make a update, all the app that from gnome like "Evince", "File-roller" eg. have a huge black border, and also the volumeIcon trapicon also display un-correctly .....like what you can see in the picture...does it happens just because some feature is missing in the newest mesa driver or some? and is there some solution? thank u.

PS:sorry for my poor english.

Last edited by ExiaHan (2015-04-13 15:21:59)

teateawhy

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Registered: 2012-03-05

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Re: [SOLVED] HUGE Black Border In All Apps from Gnome

Hi,

Please don't post huge images.
Are you using a custom theme for gtk? Try switching to the standard Adwaita theme and check if the problem persists. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B#GTK.2B_3.x.

Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

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Re: [SOLVED] HUGE Black Border In All Apps from Gnome

See also "Troubleshooting - Client Side Decorations" on that page.

ExiaHan

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Registered: 2013-11-10

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Re: [SOLVED] HUGE Black Border In All Apps from Gnome

Hi,

Please don't post huge images.
Are you using a custom theme for gtk? Try switching to the standard Adwaita theme and check if the problem persists. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B#GTK.2B_3.x.

i am sorry for the huge pic.

it is the theme what i used cause the problem ,after i change theme to Adwaita, it display ok~~~thank you very much~

JohnWinkerbelt

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Registered: 2013-04-28

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] HUGE Black Border In All Apps from Gnome

Even if already solved, I want to give some extra tipps, how it can be decent looking and usable again. Taken from the wiki you can add this lightly reduced and modified lines to the ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css file:

.window-frame, .window-frame:backdrop {
    box-shadow: 0 0 0 black; /* removes shadow completely */
    border-style: none;
    margin: 1; /* this retains the ability to resize with the mouse, if 1px is too narrow, set some higher values */
    border-radius: 0;
}

As for myself, I am using Openbox as wm, Numix as theme and the rest are the xfce environemnt. The effects are all disabled, which results in these black borders in the first place. If you use tiling wm and keyboard only, set the margin to 0 for zero frame and maximum.. content.

With other words, no need to change themes, blame the.. hmm, wo exactly allowed this to be happen anyway..? Whatever..

Greetings and good luck

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ExiaHan

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Registered: 2013-11-10

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] HUGE Black Border In All Apps from Gnome

Even if already solved, I want to give some extra tipps, how it can be decent looking and usable again. Taken from the wiki you can add this lightly reduced and modified lines to the ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css file:

.window-frame, .window-frame:backdrop {
    box-shadow: 0 0 0 black; /* removes shadow completely */
    border-style: none;
    margin: 1; /* this retains the ability to resize with the mouse, if 1px is too narrow, set some higher values */
    border-radius: 0;
}

As for myself, I am using Openbox as wm, Numix as theme and the rest are the xfce environemnt. The effects are all disabled, which results in these black borders in the first place. If you use tiling wm and keyboard only, set the margin to 0 for zero frame and maximum.. content.

With other words, no need to change themes, blame the.. hmm, wo exactly allowed this to be happen anyway..? Whatever..

Greetings and good luck

Hi, thank you, i also use numix as the theme for openbox, as i do not want to change my theme from numix, i must say that your solution is great! it works on my pc~~~~thank u very much~thank u~

ferthelet

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From: Santiago

Registered: 2015-02-18

Posts: 10

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Re: [SOLVED] HUGE Black Border In All Apps from Gnome

Even if already solved, I want to give some extra tipps, how it can be decent looking and usable again. Taken from the wiki you can add this lightly reduced and modified lines to the ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css file:

.window-frame, .window-frame:backdrop {
    box-shadow: 0 0 0 black; /* removes shadow completely */
    border-style: none;
    margin: 1; /* this retains the ability to resize with the mouse, if 1px is too narrow, set some higher values */
    border-radius: 0;
}

As for myself, I am using Openbox as wm, Numix as theme and the rest are the xfce environemnt. The effects are all disabled, which results in these black borders in the first place. If you use tiling wm and keyboard only, set the margin to 0 for zero frame and maximum.. content.

With other words, no need to change themes, blame the.. hmm, wo exactly allowed this to be happen anyway..? Whatever..

Greetings and good luck

Thank you! It worked for me as well...

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Re: [SOLVED] HUGE Black Border In All Apps from Gnome

I'm going to close this before it descends further into "me too"-ing.

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