Re: [evince] evince has wide black border

[Germán Poo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org>]

On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 13:48 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I've been trying to switch from acroread to evince for some time, and
> it continues to be a stuggle.  [The broken gtk-3 selection handling on
> multi-screen systems is a big PITA.]
>
> A couple of weeks ago, evince started displaying with a wide black
> border instead of the usual window borders and title bar that all
> other applications have.
>
>    http://www.panix.com/~grante/evince.png
>
> Is there any way to get the old, normal X11 behavior back?
>
> 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)

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Germán Poo-Caamaño
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