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Dizzy

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Registered: 2018-05-02

Posts: 3

[SOLVED]Polybar and link hover graphical problem

Hello community, I hope I'm posting in the right place.

A few weeks ago I booted my pc and run into this problem: https://i.imgur.com/vIiqUkW.png

The colours and the text of the bar are messed up. The same thing occurs when I hover over a link (as seen in the top right section of the screen). Nothing else is affected.

I tried reinstalling polybar, i3, the graphics driver, X but nothing works and I'm having a hard time pinpointing the problem.

Please help.

Last edited by Dizzy (2018-05-02 19:42:44)

robg

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Registered: 2015-03-05

Posts: 225

Re: [SOLVED]Polybar and link hover graphical problem

Hello Dizzy and welcome to the forum.

It would help if you could tell us as much as possible about your graphics setup: Your hardware details (integrated graphics, nvidia, amd, ...?), all installed graphics-related drivers, any xorg configuration details or kernel parameters, info on your display manager (if used) and / or your .xinitrc should do for starters.

Last edited by robg (2018-05-02 14:29:55)

Dizzy

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Registered: 2018-05-02

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED]Polybar and link hover graphical problem

Sure.

I have a Radeon RX 580 (amd), kernel driver/kernel module: amdgpu. OpenGL implementation: mesa.
I don't have a xorg.conf file.
I don't use a display manager.

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

 
#!/bin/sh

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then







    xrdb -merge $sysresources

fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then







    xrdb -merge "$userresources"

fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
    xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi

# start some nice programs

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
 for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
  [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
 done
 unset f
fi

twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login

~.xinitrc

[[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
exec i3

Kernel parameters

cat /proc/cmdline (Hope this is what you were asking for)

BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda5

Everything has been working perfectly for months and I didn't change any file or configuration before the problem occurred.

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

Posts: 1,938

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Re: [SOLVED]Polybar and link hover graphical problem

I may be mis-remembering, but it seems there was a thread about this a week or so ago. If memory serves it has something to do with the Meas package. Is your machine fully updated?

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Dizzy

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Registered: 2018-05-02

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED]Polybar and link hover graphical problem

Thank you for the keywords. After some googling I found out it's a problem that affects compton which was introduced with the latest mesa package .

I installed compton-git as suggested here and everything is working fine now.