[SOLVED] Interface Problem Desktop, no borders, scroll-bars, chatboxes

arnuld · 2018-02-19 23:30:51

I am using StumpWM Window Manager (WM) from last 2 years without any problem. I am updating every week (pacman -Syu) and even WMs like ratpoison, windowmaker used to run fine. Then I installed gnome 2 days ago and I noticed:

1) there are no borders in pop-ups in any firefox, no side-scroll-bars on most of the apps like chromium or any of xterminals (GNOME, Qterminal, Xfce4), epdfviewer etc.

2) When I press Ctrl-A or Ctrl-C to select some text, I can not see what is selected. It does get copied but I can not see selected text like I used too. Pressing right-lick then hovering mouse pointer on different options, I cannot see any option highlighted when pointer is on it, it does get selected if I click but I can't see it.

3) No borders around sign-in boxes on different sites, neither around pop-ups.

Then I removed GNOME (pacman -Rcs gnome gnome-extra) and went back to StumpWM and then I noticed same problem there too. It did not exist earlier. Then I tried LXDE, LXQt, Xfce4 etc and all have same problems. Is there any toolkit/interface-kit I am missing. What can I do to get all this back to normal. Here are the screenshots:

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Last edited by arnuld (2018-02-20 00:02:22)

Trilby · 2018-02-19 23:33:46

All of this just sounds like a theme issue. Either you configured a theme for gnome, or it automatically enabled some default (most likely under ~/.config) which would not be removed when the gnome packages were removed.

jasonwryan · 2018-02-19 23:35:17

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arnuld · 2018-02-20 00:01:27

Trilby wrote:

All of this just sounds like a theme issue. Either you configured a theme for gnome, or it automatically enabled some default (most likely under ~/.config) which would not be removed when the gnome packages were removed.

You were right. I just removed the entire "~/.config" directory and did "pkill x", restarted LXQt and everything is fine now. Yeah, all settings are gone but I am much happier now

@jasonwryan Thanks for pointing that out

Trilby · 2018-02-20 00:07:15

Well that was drastic overkill. I suggested it was under that path, not that it was a good idea to nuke the whole thing. But if it worked ... *shrug*

Perhaps I could have given the alternative but equally accurate suggestion that it was a configuration somewhere in /. That result might have been more entertaining.

Last edited by Trilby (2018-02-20 00:08:17)

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#1 2018-02-19 23:30:51

[SOLVED] Interface Problem Desktop, no borders, scroll-bars, chatboxes

#2 2018-02-19 23:33:46

Re: [SOLVED] Interface Problem Desktop, no borders, scroll-bars, chatboxes

#3 2018-02-19 23:35:17

Re: [SOLVED] Interface Problem Desktop, no borders, scroll-bars, chatboxes

#4 2018-02-20 00:01:27

Re: [SOLVED] Interface Problem Desktop, no borders, scroll-bars, chatboxes

#5 2018-02-20 00:07:15

Re: [SOLVED] Interface Problem Desktop, no borders, scroll-bars, chatboxes

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