gtk-window-decorator incorrectly draws the title bar if GDK_SCALE is set

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

[Impact]

I have a HiDPI screen. For all other GTK3 applications (and, to some extent, GTK2) to deal with it, I have to set two variables:

GDK_SCALE=3
GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.33333

The font rendering DPI is set to 240.

Unfortunately, this breaks decorations drawn by gtk-window-decorator, as illustrated on the screenshot. I can work around this by creating a wrapper that sets these variables to 1, only for this broken decorator.

[Test case]

1) In mate or pure compiz session run:
   env GDK_SCALE=3 GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.33333 gtk-window-decoration --replace
2) Check the decorations appearance
3) They should look properly scaled without glitches

[Regression potential]
The scaling is wrong or the decorations aren't properly painted

[Alexander E. Patrakov (patrakov-gmail)]

Forgot to say: this is about Compiz 0.9.12.2-10 as compiled on Arch Linux from AUR. See https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/compiz/

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

I guess this is still bug/problem, right? Can you tell Metacity version that is used with compiz?

Metacity had HiDPI changes/fixes... Soon there will be new compiz release 0.9.13.0, when it will be available in arch please test again. I am interested if this is still problem with compiz 0.9.13.0 + metacity 3.20.x.

[Alexander E. Patrakov (patrakov-gmail)]

There is no Metacity running, but version 3.18.4-1 is installed. I use MATE desktop on Arch Linux.

I will upgrade Metacity later today to version 3.20.1-1 and retest the bug.

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

You don't need it to be running, library from metacity is used to draw themes. :)

Do not upgrade yet, current compiz version will not work with metacity 3.20, wait for 0.9.13.0 compiz release and then upgrade both.

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

compiz 0.9.13.0 is now in arch. :) please test.

[Alexander E. Patrakov (patrakov-gmail)]

The bug still exists

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

If you know how to rebuild compiz then check linked merge proposal. That will fix decorations, but it is not full fix... I have no time to work on it. :(

[Alexander E. Patrakov (patrakov-gmail)]

I will check that on Saturday. thanks!

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

Ping!
SRU into Xenial.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Alexander, or anyone else affected,

Accepted compiz into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/1:0.9.12.3+16.04.20171116-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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[Ads20000 (ads20000)]

Is the bug reproducible with non-HiDPI screens? And how do I change the environment variable back to the default once I've reproduced this bug, reboot?

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

Yes, this bug is reproducible also on non-HiDPI. Start GNOME Flashback session or any other that would use compiz + gtk-window-decorator. Then use terminal to restart gtk-window-decorator:

- GDK_SCALE=2 gtk-window-decorator --replace &
This will show broken decorations if using version without fix, otherwise you should not see any difference.

After testing just do:
- gtk-window-decorator --replace &
- exit

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Tested with:

apt-cache policy compiz
compiz:
  Installed: 1:0.9.12.3+16.04.20171116-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:0.9.12.3+16.04.20171116-0ubuntu1
  Version table:

Works as expected.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.12.3+16.04.20171116-0ubuntu1

---------------
compiz (1:0.9.12.3+16.04.20171116-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Eleni Maria Stea ]
  * Added option to disable blend in grid plugin (LP: #1700859)
  * Move: add options for showing only the window shape (filled or not)
    (LP: #1700859)

  [ Alberts Muktupāvels ]
  * Ensure that surfaces used by metacity theme have device scale set to
    1 . (LP: #1530277) (LP: #1530277)
  * Use AnyPropertyType when getting _MOTIF_WM_HINTS property. (LP:
    #1702297)

  [ Martin Wimpress ]
  * mate: Avoid artefacts of Windows Thumbnail Previews (LP: #1606369)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * move: damage all the border area in outline mode and ignore
    transparent colors (LP: #1700859)
  * grid: ignore alpha in colors when not blending, and fix animations
    (LP: #1700859)
  * resize: add support for disabling transparency and avoid over-
    damaging in outline mode (LP: #1700859)
  * Screen: add averageColor to get the current desktop average color
  * unity-lowgfx.ini: remove unsupported unity option

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <[e-mail]> Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:00:54 +0000

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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[plum (plumerlis)]

It seems this fix will broke Unity Scaling
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1750273

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

plum, unity does not use gtk-window-decorator... so problem is elsewhere.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Compiz 0.9.14.0 was released today, which includes this fix.