Some dialogs display incorrectly

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Some dialogs display incorrectly

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I've recently install Linux Mint 20.3, and for the first time I chose the Mate desktop.

Most aspects of Mate have been great, but a couple of the dialogs have issues.

The first one with a problem was the Preferences - Displays configuration dialog. I use 4 monitors and the window showing the monitor layout displays them as tiny rectangles in the centre, making it difficult to accurately position them:
Display Preferences.png
Is there some way to enlarge the view to more accurately position the displays?

I also noticed that I need to Apply any changes and restart the Displays dialog after each change, or the dialog gets messed up:
Display Preferences - artifacts.png
The dialog display artefacts occur with both Nouveau and Nvidia drivers.

I installed Caja Actions, but I have been unable to assign icons to any action. The icon chooser dialog does not display any icons or provide any way to choose one:
Caja Actions - Icon Chooser.png
Is there something else I need to install to get the icon chooser dialog working correctly?


Addendum:

Since I posted this I found a related application in Synaptic: 'file-manager-actions', that seems to be the basis for 'caja-actions'. I installed it, and it works correctly. Strangely, 'file-manager-actions' is an old archived project has not been updated recently, but it doesn't have any issues. On the other hand, 'caja-actions' was updated in 2021, but appears to have a major bug.

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System:    Kernel: 5.4.0-120-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.4.0 Desktop: MATE 1.26.0 info: mate-panel 
           wm: marco 1.26.0 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z97X-SOC Force v: x.x serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: F7 
           date: 04/21/2015 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-4790K bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell rev: 3 L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 32002 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Gigabyte driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0412 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia v: 470.129.06 bus ID: 01:00.0 
           chip ID: 10de:13c2 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa compositor: marco 
           v: 1.26.0 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1680x1050~60Hz, 1280x1024~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.129.06 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:03.0 
           chip ID: 8086:0c0c 
           Device-2: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           chip ID: 8086:8ca0 
           Device-3: NVIDIA GM204 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
           chip ID: 10de:0fbb 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-120-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek driver: r8169 v: kernel port: c000 bus ID: 06:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8161 
           IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 276.83 GiB (29.7%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-00MFCA0 size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm 
           serial: <filter> rev: 1A01 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 146.65 GiB used: 19.21 GiB (13.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 32.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 32.0 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 33 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1486 fan-1: 789 fan-3: 830 fan-4: 0 fan-5: 0 gpu: nvidia fan: 45% 
           Voltages: 12v: N/A 5v: N/A 3.3v: 1.67 vbat: 1.67 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
           1: deb https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linuxmint-packages una main upstream import backport
           2: deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive focal main restricted universe multiverse
           3: deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           4: deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
           5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
           6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-source-repositories.list 
           1: deb-src https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linuxmint-packages una main upstream import backport
           2: deb-src http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive focal main restricted universe multiverse
           3: deb-src http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           4: deb-src http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
           5: deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
           6: deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
Info:      Processes: 230 Uptime: 3h 31m Memory: 30.66 GiB used: 1.89 GiB (6.2%) Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 9.4.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: mate-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 
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mikeflan
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Re: Some dialogs display incorrectly

Post by mikeflan »

Thanks for posting this problem. I don't know how to fix it. I don't use Mate. Sorry.
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