Re: [evince] evince has wide black border

[Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com>]

On 2015-09-29, Germán Poo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org> wrote:

> > > > I'm unaware of any configuration change that I've made, but both 3.14
> > > > and 3.16 now show the black border instead of normal window
> > > > decorations.  I'm guessing something in gtk-3 got broken?
> > >
> > > I remember an issue like that in the intel's driver to draw shadows.
> > >
> > > try with:
> > > $ export GDK_RENDERING=image
> > >
> > > And then, put it in some of your init scripts (say .bashrc)
> >
> > No change.
> >
> > However, I think I'm confusing two things:
> >
> >  1) The recent change in the black border size from moderately ugly to
> >     hugely ugly.
> >
> >  2) The general brokeness of CSD on most desktops.
> >
> > After googling some more, I reduced the black border size by adding
> > this to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css:
> >
> > .window-frame {
> >   box-shadow: none;
> >   margin: 1;
> > }
> >
> > That reduces the black border to 1-pixel.  You can reduce it to 0
> > pixels, but then there's no visual boarder at all (which reduces
> > readability), and there's no way to resize the window.  It's slightly
> > less ugly now, but CSD is still annoying.
> >
> > What I'd really, REALLY like is a way to disable CSD and use normal
> > window-manager provided borders like the other 99% of the apps I use.
> >
> > I was going to try using gtk3-nocsd, but I'd have to downgrade gtk3
> > from 3.16 to 3.14, and I don't feel like doing that at the moment.  Is
> > there any other way to disable the CSD and get a normal window border
> > back?
>
> As I said, it is an issue in the graphic driver.

What is "it"?

The window manager not drawing normal title bar and borders around the
window?

The inability to disable CSD?

The width of the black border?

The color of the black border?

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