Adwaita window decoration broken in gnome-shell

[Julien Olivier]

I've found this warning in .xsession-errors. It seems to be the culprit:

Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Impossible de charger le thème « Adwaita » : Ligne 119 caractère 50: Impossible de comprendre le composant de couleur « custom(wm_title_highlight,gtk:base » dans la spécification de couleur

A rough translation would be:

Window manager warning: Unable to load the « Adwaita » theme : Line 119 character 50: Unable to parse the color component « custom(wm_title_highlight,gtk:base » in the color specification

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.1.3-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic-pae 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 18 09:51:06 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-12 (5 days ago)

[peddy (peddy22)]

It affects me too on AMD64:

Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Adwaita": Line 119 character 50: Did not understand color component "custom(wm_title_highlight,gtk:base" in color specification
Could not aquire DBus name.

I can post more details about my setup as needed.

[Sajmonella (szymon-3)]

+1 here. This (default?) window decoration is horrible. :P

[peddy (peddy22)]

I downgraded to gnome-themes-standard-3.0.2-1~natty1 for the time being, and Adwaita works again.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I was able to duplicate this bug. However, I also was able to workaround this bug by upgrading my mutter (and clutter) to the versions in Ricotz's testing PPA.

[Harry (harry33)]

Yes I can confirm that newer mutter works with the gnome-themes-standard 3.1.5.
I tried mutter 3.1.4 here.

However, I can also see this theme corruption with the gnome-panel (fallback for session gnome) desktop, and that does not use mutter, but metacity.

[Jean-Louis Dupond (dupondje)]

It got changed here:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-themes-standard/commit/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml?id=81380e768fc00c30f4f22fca1c914b30d3e0043b

[Jean-Louis Dupond (dupondje)]

And mutter doesn't understand this, because it got added here:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/mutter/commit/?id=54b2fab849dee46c55314edaaae048886a5d335c

[Jean-Louis Dupond (dupondje)]

We should upgrade clutter first: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clutter-1.0/+bug/828608

Then we can get mutter 3.1.4 in, which will fix this issues!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mutter - 3.1.4-0ubuntu1

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mutter (3.1.4-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Fix Adwaita window decoration (LP: #828543)
  * debian/control.in: Bump libclutter-1.0-dev build-dependency to 1.7.5
  * debian/patches/03_link_gles2.patch: Refreshed
  * debian/libmutter0.symbols: Adjust .symbols file
 -- Laurent Bigonville <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:53:37 +0200

[morryis (morryis)]

A fresh up to date 11.10 installation, window decoration in gnome-shell is still not working

[Julien Olivier (julo)]

It works fine for me on an up to date oneiric.

[morryis (morryis)]

I am sorry, it does not work with "Ambiance" but with the "Adwaita" theme. I used gnome-tweak to select it, had to log off and log in and then it looked as expected.