White line at the top of my screen

libeclipse · 2016-04-12 17:11:38

I have gnome window manager and cinnamon installed as a desktop environment. It's a fresh install. I see this:

http://i.imgur.com/GuSrdTJ.png

There's a very thin line at the top of my screen. Barely noticable in the image but it sticks out like a sore thumb on my desktop.

JackyDawg · 2016-04-12 19:17:10

First try with a different display. This seems like it wouldn't be a software-side issue. Maybe try with a different desktop/window manager?

Awebb · 2016-04-12 19:22:34

JackyDawg wrote:

First try with a different display. This seems like it wouldn't be a software-side issue. Maybe try with a different desktop/window manager?

A display related artifact showing up on a screenshot?

libeclipse · 2016-04-13 15:53:14

Bumping.

WorMzy · 2016-04-13 15:57:02

Please don't do that.

Docbroke · 2016-04-13 16:01:59

are you using proper screen resolution for your display??

libeclipse · 2016-04-13 16:04:19

WorMzy wrote:

Please don't do that.

Ah, apologies.

Docbroke wrote:

are you using proper screen resolution for your display??

I don't see why that'd make a white line that'd show up in screenshots, but yes, I am using the correct resolution.

Docbroke · 2016-04-13 16:11:26

well, if there is mismatch ratio of X/Y it can create while line on top or side, I had this issue on my TV when connected with HDMI, as xfce4 was setting 1360x768 instead of 1280x720, it was creating white line on side.

libeclipse · 2016-04-13 16:13:34

Docbroke wrote:

well, if there is mismatch ratio of X/Y it can create while line on top or side, I had this issue on my TV when connected with HDMI, as xfce4 was setting 1360x768 instead of 1280x720, it was creating white line on side.

If that is the case, the it seems to only affect my dektop and not anything else.

Steef435 · 2016-04-13 17:09:47

Do you mean you can actually place for example a window on top of the white line and then the white line disappears? Are you sure it's not your wallpaper and/or GTK+ theme or other personalization option? Does it only occur with Cinnamon?

B3QL · 2016-04-13 19:28:27

I've got similar issue but on the right and left side of screen, even when I'm working on 2 monitors.
These white lines are only on background. I've noticed them after upgrading packages.
http://imgur.com/a/ja1hL

frank604 · 2016-04-13 19:33:32

As others have mentioned, check xrandr and double check resolution. Also if it is only on wallpaper and doesn't affect windows, perhaps the wallpaper is not scaling properly and the white is a filler? Just a thought. Good luck.

libeclipse · 2016-04-15 17:02:01

Update: The white line seems to have moved to the right side of my screen.

frank604 wrote:

As others have mentioned, check xrandr and double check resolution. Also if it is only on wallpaper and doesn't affect windows, perhaps the wallpaper is not scaling properly and the white is a filler? Just a thought. Good luck.

Any advice on how to fix the wallpaper's scaling?

libeclipse · 2016-04-15 18:11:47

It doesn't seem to be a scaling problem. Changing the scaling of the wallpaper has no effect on the line.

cirrus9 · 2016-04-16 00:06:10

After the recent GTK3.20 upgrades, and the mess with themes, I've had a similar event. I had two vertical white lines, on the left, and right side after the GTK3.20.1, and Numix theme upgrades were installed. After the GTK3.20.2, and the second Numix theme upgrade, it went to
one thinner white line on the left of the screen. It's only visible on the wallpaper, any wallpaper, (changing wallpaper didn't help). It's not visible in any full screen windows. My monitor resolutions settings are correct. I'm using lightdm with the Cinnamon desktop.

I thinks it's a bug from the recent upgrades, however, I certainly don't know this for sure. I also have an Arch install on another drive with
KDE desktop, and I have had no problems of any kind after the recent upgrades, and no white line there either.

I also have Fedora 23 with Mate, Ubuntu 16.10 with Mate, Debian Sid with Cinnamon, and Opensuse Tumbleweed with KDE. None of them have upgraded to GTK3 yet, so I'm waiting to see what kind of mess that will be for them.

Last edited by cirrus9 (2016-04-16 00:14:04)

mastorak · 2016-04-19 16:58:18

I have the exact same issue the past few days after an upgrade and I now have a white line on the right side of the screen. I suspect it was the latest cinnamon upgrade in combination with gtk3. It is not a matter of scaling and it is not a matter of wallpaper. I had the exact same wallpaper before and it was just fine. I am using numix on cinnamon and lightdm.

Update: I logged-in to openbox and the line is not there. It only appears in Cinnamon

Last edited by mastorak (2016-04-19 17:05:27)

mastorak · 2016-04-19 20:29:40

It is probably the Numix theme fault. The combination Numix+Cinnamon+GTK 3.x has some issue.
Any other theme I tried is ok. Numix on other WM/DE is also ok. A fresh install of numix from git did not produce different results.
So, for the time being use another theme.

Last edited by mastorak (2016-04-19 20:30:24)

cirrus9 · 2016-04-19 22:38:01

mastorak wrote:

It is probably the Numix theme fault. The combination Numix+Cinnamon+GTK 3.x has some issue.
Any other theme I tried is ok. Numix on other WM/DE is also ok. A fresh install of numix from git did not produce different results.
So, for the time being use another theme.

I agree that it must be caused by Numix theme, and Cinnamon. After reading your post, I switched to Arc theme, and the line is gone. It's also not there on KDE even with the Numix theme.

BruceR · 2016-04-20 10:36:27

mastorak wrote:

It is probably the Numix theme fault.

Had the same issue. I switched to the Controls theme to Numix-ArchBlue and it went away.

Last edited by BruceR (2016-04-20 10:41:19)

thebeardedchild · 2016-04-24 06:45:12

I just noticed this today after switching to Cinnamon. As others have said it appears when Numix is your theme, but I also noticed it goes away if you uncheck "Show Desktop Icons", so I dunno if that might help anyone get to the bottom of this...

cirrus9 · 2016-04-24 19:50:47

After the latest updates, which I installed today, the white line is gone from my cinnamon desktop. I'm quite sure it was the Numix-Themes update that fixed it.

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