bug

[Ray Andrews]

On 17/11/12 03:06 PM, Worrier Poet wrote:
>
>> Anyway, here's the short version:
>>
>> Version is 4.8.  Distro is LMDE.  I made myself a custom theme
>> yesterday and it works fine, however, on restarting xfce the four
>> buttons on the titlebar show up black but only in the active window
>> and only on one of my three monitors.  This is true with all themes.
>> Menu>Settings>Window Manager > change from any theme to any other
>> theme and it fixes itself right then and there.  This did not happen
>> previously, and I'd suspect my custom theme, except that it happens
>> with all themes and I can't imagine how my new theme could create a
>> bug for another theme that is untouched.  I also deleted some surplus
>> themes, so, if it is possible for one theme to somehow need the
>> presence of another theme, then that could be it.  But again, the
>> problem is only there on startup.  If anyone has any ideas ...
> Hmmm. Well, in your particular circumstance, I'd try to communicate with
> others on the LMDE forum / list to see if someone there can reproduce
> the issue. You might need to provide them a copy of your custom theme.
Yup, one often doesn't know who to 'blame' for these things, and there 
can be half a dozen suspects.
> Not it's either here or there, but is your theme GTK3-compliant, or is
> it a GTK2 theme? I've noticed a few odd little behaviors in Xfce 4.8.6
> when running a GTK3 application under GTK2 themes. But since I'm running
> Debian testing, I kind of expect to see little things like that crop up
> now and then. I believe only one of the themes available with Xfce in
> Wheezy is currently fully GTK3-compliant.
God knows.  It shows up in the 'Window Manager' window.  I just thought 
that someone might have some good clue what's going on.
> I should probably get off my duff and report what I've, since it'll be
> better if it gets fixed before Wheezy goes stable.
>
> Good luck!
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