[Bug 1572043] [NEW] Gtk apps un-resizable and without decoration after upgrade to Wily in KDE/Gnome

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After upgrading from Kubuntu 15.04 to 15.10 window decorations on Gtk
apps are missing, which makes it impossible to resize them.

This happens under the Plasma (KDE) desktop and the Gnome desktop, but
not under the Ubuntu (Unity) desktop. In Unity the window has drop
shadows and is resizable by grabbing the shadow with the mouse, I guess
the Unity window manager creates them.

This also happens on a freshly created user account, so it is not a
problem with my existing user profile.

The missing borders are specified in the default
~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css, but that is IMO wrong for KDE and Gnome.
Changing it to have non-zero borders makes the borders usable again
(though also ugly).

Another workaround is using ALT+right click to resize the window, (but
that is disabled by default under Gnome).


This problem seems to be related to the one as discussed at https://github.com/numixproject/numix-gtk-theme/issues/206, which also describes how to edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css to make the window borders visible again.

System: Ubuntu 15.10
libgtk-3-common 3.16.7-0ubuntu3; numix-gtk-theme 2.0.2-0ubuntu1

** Affects: kwin (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New


** Tags: bot-comment

[Jan]

Assigning to the kwin package as launchpad says it is important to
assign this to some package, but I'm not sure if this belongs to a
window manager or GTK or if it is a coordination problem.

** Package changed: ubuntu => kwin (Ubuntu)
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Gtk apps un-resizable and without decoration after upgrade to Wily in
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[Brian Murray]

** Tags added: wily
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** Also affects: breeze-gtk (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[Flames_in_Paradise]

@ Jan: this looks like a dupe of

bug #1514491 (kubuntu desktop inconsistency and integration issues:
scrollbars. gtk3 button placement also not integrated) to me.

Pls. note also that all Kubuntu-Dev powers are currently strictly bound
creating the new LTS-release.

Any bugs with regards to the numix-gtk-theme should be reported there.
Breeze-GTK-theme is the standard for Kubuntu.
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See also bugs on shimmer-themes -> bug #1507117 (Black window on some
GTK3-apps with Numix theme)

** Changed in: kwin (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid

** Also affects: shimmer-themes (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New

** Changed in: breeze-gtk (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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[Jan]

I updated to 16.04 now and the bug is still there.

This is not quite the same as #1514491, that one is about
inconsistencies, this is broken resize functionality (unless you know
the shortcuts).

The #1507117 is the inverse of this issue in some way. If I set .window-
frame margin to > 0 in my gtk.css I get the same black border around gtk
windows, and I can use that black border to resize the window. If the
margin is set to 0 I don't get the border but I can't resize the window.
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[Mark Horsfield]

I am also seeing the same symptoms as reported by OP,

- fresh install of KDE NEON 5.14 (based on Ubuntu 18.04)
- using gtk3 app Tilix, i do not see the cursor change to allow me to adjust the app size

and the workaround (ALT + right click to resize) works for me
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[Mark Horsfield]

adding New again. this was an old bug report (from 2016) but I think it
might still be an issue in newer software (KDE NEON 5.14) using gtk2 or
gtk3 (I am not familiar enough to narrow the component here)

** Changed in: kwin (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => New

** Changed in: breeze-gtk (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => New
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[Mark Horsfield]

not sure how to edit an existing comment here.

regarding the symptoms I reported earlier, I will add this issue right
now only applies to Tilix terminal emulator app.

I am able to resize slack (running as snapd container) and firefox
(native app) without issues.
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