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.
On 25.9.2024 17.14, Daniel Ranc wrote:
On 25/09/2024 15:02, 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 2024-09-25 at 11:09:08 +0200,
Daniel Ranc <daniel.ranc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
