Weird black box around nautilus

Topi · 2023-04-20 06:22:15

Hi! First time poster so I ll probably be doing something wrong but here it goes.

As the title says, I get a weird black box around dialogs opened inside nautilus.
I use awesomewm and I suspect it has something to do with the issue because they are floating windows, however, this doesn't happen to me with any other application that opens floating windows

I don't know any output to post so I ll just attach an image of the issue: https://imgur.com/a/RXfOuwC

Thanks for the help in advance!

seth · 2023-04-20 06:47:00

That's the window shadow - in absence of a compositor and alpha support, it's all black.
Try to run picom or xcompmgr.

Idk. whether this is meanwhile hardcoded or gnome stuff is still supposed to be able to deal w/ uncomposited environments.
Might simply be the gtk theme, https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic. … 9#p2134731 but (also) for ~/.config/gtk-4.0/

Topi · 2023-04-25 06:27:20

You are right, I installed and run picom and now the black box turned into some border. I am guessing thats the default border written by picom or something like that so I ll work on a config to remove it.

Thank you very much!

seth · 2023-04-25 06:37:04

The black thing isn't added by picom (as evidenced by it being there before picom was even installed) but the window itself.
Picom just interprets the alpha-channel, turning the otherwise completely black area into some translucent gradient during the render.
You'll have to change the GTK theme and/or remove the shaodw box in the gtk config.

bihariNiger · 2023-11-11 16:00:07

Installing the picom fixes the black box surroundings the menus but same problem happens in Google-chrome and other chromium based browser and Everytime i hover on the screen the shadow becames more darker and darker it seems like the shadow from the previous hover is not clearing up ? How can i fix that ???

seth · 2023-11-11 16:21:16

Please don't dm-copy me or anyone else your posts, this is a public forum, your posts are already visible to anyone.

Black frames on what element? The chromium browsers paint a couple of things entirely inside the window and ouside the reach or relevance of a compositor.
Please link a screenshot and post your xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

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Weird black box around nautilus

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