Some windows have transparent backgrounds

[Graham Inggs]

On Ubuntu 15.04, some windows have transparent backgrounds.
This occurs in the person editor and family editor, but not all editors.

In the upstream bug report, Garudabelanda wrote:
> This is apparently caused by using overlay-scrollbar on Ubuntu 15.04.
> Starting Gramps using "LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 gramps" provides a work-around.

[Ross Gammon (rosco2)]

I can confirm this bug in my Vivid VM with Gramps 4.1.1. I can also confirm that setting LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR to zero fixes the problem.

[Ross Gammon (rosco2)]

If you want to make this workaround permanent (but making giving you standard scrollbars everywhere instead of the Ubuntu ones) try:
$ gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

This looks like an Ubuntu specific problem in gtk+-3*, and if I find some time, I will report it there.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Thanks Ross.

Another permanent workaround is to modify /usr/bin/gramps as follows:

#!/usr/bin/python3 -O
import os, gramps.grampsapp as app
os.environ['LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR'] = '0'
app.main()

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Fix committed upstream
https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps/commit/94955

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Ross: are you going to include this patch in the Debian package?
Do you have an ETA for 4.2.0?

[Ross Gammon (rosco2)]

On 08/11/2015 06:07 PM, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Ross: are you going to include this patch in the Debian package?
> Do you have an ETA for 4.2.0?
>

Hi Graham,
I am close. I have a package ready that I am testing at the moment.
The plan is to sift through the Debian/Ubuntu bug reports over the next
few days and see what is fixed, and what can be patched.
Cheers,
Ross

[Ross Gammon (rosco2)]

Actually, testing with 4.1.3 of Gramps in my Wily WM, I could no longer reproduce this bug. But the patch does no harm, so I will include it in Gramps 4.20.
Please test that it fixes the problem, once Gramps 4.2.0 arrives in Ubuntu.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gramps - 4.2.0~dfsg-1

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gramps (4.2.0~dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * Drop patches applied upstream or cherry-picked from there
  * Add version constraints for gtk and pygobject
  * Add goocanvas dependency - available soon
  * Drop webkit dpendency as HTML view has been removed
  * Force removal of upstream packages when installing Debian one
    (LP: #1464845)
  * Drop fixperm override as permissions fixed upstream
  * Fix spelling error in changelog
  * Switch to nose for unit tests
  * Add build dependencies for the nose tests
  * Update copyright file
  * Add uversionmangle to watch file to deal with alpha/beta versions
  * Add manual test cases
  * Drop FAQ URL from upstream metadata - changes every release
  * Add patch to fix transparent windows in Ubuntu.
    Thanks to Lance Orner (LP: #1451259)

 -- Ross Gammon <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Aug 2015 23:03:11 +0200