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, 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. >> >>
