Black Title Bar
dmaisano opened this issue · 4 comments
Hello! Firstly allow me to say I love your posts on unixporn. I'm currently running a VM to get a feel as to how to rice my work laptop (once I get my hands on it). I plan on installing XUbuntu (18.04) and plan to keep most of the config vanilla with the exception of a GTK theme, icons, and WM theme. For the GTK theme I'm using your Fantome theme and Xfwm-Gaps WM theme.
What I have noticed with the xfwm-gaps and mainly the two C# themes is that there seems to be a weird rendering issue when click on one of the buttons on the window bar itself. A black sort of pixel distortion appears when clicking on any of the options to close, max, min, etc. I initially thought that it may have been due to the margin or compositor settings, however after disabling my compositor and setting the margin to none by default to no avail the issue persists.
I've recorded a sample of this in action and also attached a few screenshots to imgur. Not sure what the issue may be but hopefully there may be some sort of fix or I may just be missing out on something that I'm not aware of. If there's more info needed I'd be more than happy to provide it 😄
Hello @dmaisano!
Thank You very much for spent your time to write a well written issue along with the sreencast. And also thank You for the kind words.
Unfortunately I also have that issue and don't know to fix it. It only happens on the transparent part of the fake gaps. Yesterday I have an idea to make pngs to cover the buttons on press & on hover reaction. But still didn't have a time to install Xfce again after destroyed my entire setup. Wish me to get a free weekend again so I can play around with Xfce again.
@addy-dclxvi That's a relief to hear!
I honestly thought that my case may have been a rare issue due to using xubuntu as a distro as a opposed to a minimal arch or debian install where one might know the ins and outs of their config files for their WM of choice.
For now I suppose I'll have to stick with using keybinds to sort/tile/close my windows. While the theme itself does look incredible with the gaps it would be nice to have the desired functionality for it to be truly perfect. Take your time and hopefully you do get around to playing around with XFCE, as for myself I'm still messing around with different WMs to find the best one suited to my needs.
On that note I have been taking a look at openbox and cbpp. A nice debian 9 distro with openbox out of the box and seems as a good starting place to rice. My question to you is for openbox do you have any sort of tiling implemented with keybinds? I did try openbox for a day or two but didn't have much luck figuring out a good way to snap and tile windows.
I think that doesn't affect.
I also rarely use buttons for window actions on Xfce. Mostly done using keybinds. Xfce has a lot keybind functionality.
Yup, trying a lot different WM is the best way to find what WM could be suitable for You.
But after tried dozens of WM, I always back to Openbox, where I start. It's the most comfortable WM to use. Even though it's not tiling, It has ability to resize by percentage of the screen and recoordinate. Can be used for fake window snaping using keybind. My keybind for those actions are Super + Arrows in my dotfiles.
I think trying CB++ is a good idea. It comes with good old Crunchbang formula, with preconfigured Openbox, tint2, Conky, Compton, LxAppearance, Thunar, Geany, etc. Until now I'm still using those formula.
If You want true snapping on Openbox, You could try ObSnap.
I will definitely look into ObSnap, true snapping would be nice but is not a deal breaker. I'm more than happy to settle with fake snapping using keyboard shortcuts. I'll take a look at your dot files and mess around with CBPP as well as polybar, something I've wanted to try out for some time now. Thanks for the tips!