On 25/09/2024 16:57, Janne Veteläinen wrote:
> Those are GTK4 applications, and the default GTK4 renderer was
> changed from OpenGL to Vulkan last week. Possibly the cause for
> the blank windows.
>
> If your setup doesn't support Vulkan, the renderer can be set
> back to OpenGL via environment variable GSK_RENDERER=opengl.
Excellent! Thank you for this info I was'nt aware of. However I
tried:
export GSK_RENDERER=opengl
and started the updated pavucontrol, unfortunately to no avail:
still black.
I know that my system has difficulties with Vulkan (AMD graphic
card). Sad.
>
> On 25.9.2024 17.14, Daniel Ranc wrote:
>>
>> On 25/09/2024 15:02, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
>>> On 2024-09-25 at 11:09:08 +0200,
>>> Daniel Ranc <daniel.r...@telecom-sudparis.eu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am experiencing some strangeness with the Adwaita tray
>>>> icons of
>>>> VLC and volumeicon. They disappeared from the tray around this
>>>> summer (unfortunately no precise data here) and I needed to
>>>> revert to the latest working package
>>>> adwaita-icon-theme-41.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst for those icons to
>>>> work
>>>> again.
>>>>
>>>> My environment is using stalonetray and a very simple window
>>>> manager (no Gnome, no KDE whatsoever).
>>> Old school. Me, too. :-)
>>>
>>>> Are others impacted as well ? Any clue how to get back on
>>>> track ?
>>>>
>>>> Interestingly last week some apps suddenly showed completely
>>>> black windows: simple-scan and pavucontrol, and i had to revert
>>>> to older packages to make them work again. Are those phenomena
>>>> related?
>>> Another possibility is that your applications are starting to
>>> use the
>>> Status Notifier Icon API. From my ~/.xinit file:
>>>
>>> # iwgtk does Status Notifier Icon, but some system trays
>>> # (*cough*, tint2, stalonetray, *cough*) don't, so we
>>> use
>>> # snixembed instead
>>> snixembed & sleep $delay
>>>
>>> So maybe install snixembed from AUR[0]?
>>>
>>> [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/snixembed
>> Interesting! Thank you for the pointer. However the culprit apps
>> (simple-scan, pavucontrol) do not use tray icons at all. They
>> simply open a black, empty window. It seems the issue with those
>> is not related to my icon issue, after all.
>>
>>
