Graphical glitch in Synaptic window...

[mingle]

Hi guys,

Running LM 18.0 xfce 64-bit.

Noticed that the synaptic window has some minor graphical glitches, in the form of thin dashed-lines around the edges of text-boxes/scroll-lists

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Is this something others have noticed?

Cheers,

Mike.

[richyrich]

It looks like it is trying to draw shadows. Check the Compositor settings in the Window Manager Tweaks program.

[mingle]

When I mouse-over the dashed-lines they fade into scroll-bars... Strange...

I'll check the compositor.

Mike.

<edit> Disabling the compositor completely made NO difference.

[austin.texas]

Those are not glitches. That is the new design which indicates that there is more that you can scroll to.

Someone made the decision to make the OS more like a smartphone app.

[mingle]

Ha! That'd be right...

Still looks like a glitch to me

Thanks,

Mike.

[Cosmo.]

Those are not glitches. That is the new design which indicates that there is more that you can scroll to.

Someone made the decision to make the OS more like a smartphone app.

In fact that is a (silly) "feature" of GTK 3.18.

Those "glitches" do not only appear in synaptic, but in any window, that cannot display the complete content.

At now those dotted lines can only get removed by a tweak, that JosephM had published some time ago. But this does only work for windows, which run in the user context of the user, so not for synaptic or other programs, which run in the context of root. - I cannot tell, if this tweak is applicable for xfce.

[MtnDewManiac]

Please advise if you find a global fix for this new... feature.

Regards,
MDM

[Cosmo.]

Please advise if you find a global fix for this new... feature.

Use LM 17.3. Sounds hard, but seeing the number of problems / bugs in LM 18 and considering the small list of new features, this is the simply consequence. "Upgrade for a reason" as Clem says, "upgrade only, if you have a reason" is my interpretation.

The problem is known since 2 months. It doesn't appear, as if a quick fix is on the way.

[mingle]

Thanks for all the replies fellas.

It's actually nice to know that is is a known issue, even if a solution may be some way away.

Not a biggie, really, just a minor annoyance.

Apart from this I haven't run into any other issues in LM18. Previously running LM17.3.

Cheers,

Mike.