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[Bug 1436553] Re: Transparent windows render black with Gtk3.16 and compiz
This is NOT FIXED by compiz 0.9.12.2, at least not in Debian Unstable
with gtk 3.17.9 and has not been fixed on my system by any version I
have tried except the version I built myself from
https://code.launchpad.net/~albertsmuktupavels/compiz/add-gtk-frame-
extents-to-net-supported with the "gtk" directory replaced with a more
recent one for Metacity 3.16 support.
Source code for this available at
https://archive.org/download/DebianPackagesForMate-desktopWityGtk3AndCustomPanelTheme/compiz-0.9.12.0extents-supportedgtk3.16-1luke4_amd64.deb
Debian packages for Debian Unstable also published in the same article, which is a collection of MATE-gtk3 packages plus compiz and network-manager-gnome packages:
https://archive.org/details/DebianPackagesForMate-desktopWityGtk3AndCustomPanelTheme
I have yet to get compositing of CSD apps to work on any other compiz
version. The modified MATE packages (which support a special transparent
panel menu theme) have composition support forced and will work with any
version of Compiz, but Debian does not patch GNOME apps to remove CSD so
this issue is important there.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1436553
Title:
Transparent windows render black with Gtk3.16 and compiz
Status in compiz package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Running compiz_1%3a0.9.12.0+15.04.20150202-0ubuntu1 without unity (in
mate compiled with gtk-3) and testing Gtk-3.16 I run into serious
issues with failures to render certain Gtk Windows transparent.
Hardware is AMD FX 8120 with radeon HD 6750 GPU.
My theme sets popup windows used by menus transparent, and Gtk
application windows with client side decoration (CSD) have
transparency underlying the GtkHeaderBar. In the latter case this is
what makes rounded corners possible. The transparent popup windows
used with my theme to support menus resembling gnome-shell's widgets
in my hacked Gtk3 version of mate-panel work fine with Gtk3.14 but due
to the window issue get black corners with compiz and Gtk-3.16.
Windows drawn transparent with cairo still work, but windows set
transparent by GTK usually do not,
Changing the window manager to Mutter makes transparency work
perfectly. In Gtk-3.14 transparency works in Metacity with compositing
enabled, it does not with gtk-3.16.
I am not sure whether this should be considered a compiz bug or a Gtk
bug, but since transparency works fine in gnome-shell and mutter (as
used by shell), I am not sure the GNOME team would consider this a bug
they are willing to fix. If nobody fixes this any GNOME application
that forces client side decoration (such as the gtk3-demo or gtk3
-widget-factory) will be ugly in Ubuntu unless the client side
decorations have square corners.
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