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#1 2018-02-11 09:37:31

Clorden
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Registered: 2016-04-13
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Mate 1.20 HiDPI - applets graphical issue

Hello All,
I just updated Mate to 1.20 on both my laptops with 4K display.

HiDPI seems to work pretty well but the notification area applet is unusable as it shows corrupted graphics. E.G.: the audio volume, the WiFi and the battery icons are mangled and their space seems to display random, quickly moving, graphics.
Also, the workspaces applet has similar issues.

Although mainly cosmetic, the issue makes the applets almost unusable as you need to guess where the icons are, in order to be able to click on them.

When setting the display to 1080p (or any non-HiDPI setting) the issue disappears.


Do we know if this is an upstream bug or just Arch specific?

In any case, is there any known workaround?

Regards,
Clorden

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#2 2018-02-13 23:05:46

dedsm
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Re: Mate 1.20 HiDPI - applets graphical issue

I'm having this same issue, did you manage to solve it?

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#3 2018-02-15 11:42:10

Clorden
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Registered: 2016-04-13
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Re: Mate 1.20 HiDPI - applets graphical issue

dedsm wrote:

I'm having this same issue, did you manage to solve it?

Unfortunately not yet...

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#4 2018-02-15 12:25:25

cirrus9
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Registered: 2016-04-15
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Re: Mate 1.20 HiDPI - applets graphical issue

Try increasing the height of the panel that the applets are in. This did work for me. I've been expirementing with Mate 1.20. This is one of the reasons I quit using Mate, when I switched to a HiDPI display, I found the previous versions of Mate to be unsuitable. I don't think Mate has been the same since the switch to GTK3 either. I think Cinnamon or KDE handle HiDPI much better.

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#5 2018-02-16 08:28:47

Clorden
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Registered: 2016-04-13
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Re: Mate 1.20 HiDPI - applets graphical issue

cirrus9 wrote:

Try increasing the height of the panel that the applets are in. This did work for me.

Thanks for the suggestion, I tried: if I make the panel over ~50 pixels the notification area stops flickering, indeed. However the workspaces is still showing incorrectly and other applets like the window selector start flickering.

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#6 2018-02-20 08:52:55

Clorden
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Re: Mate 1.20 HiDPI - applets graphical issue

This issue was finally reported upstream:

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-applets/issues/308

Last edited by Clorden (2018-02-20 11:23:22)

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