Re: Gnome 3.16 applications in other desktop environments have an ugly frame around their windows now

[drago01 <drago01 gmail com>]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Bazon Bloch <bazonbloch arcor de> wrote:
> With Gnome 3.16, applications like nautilus, totem, file-roller, evince,
> gnome-calculator and others in other desktop environments (XFCE, KDE) have
> an ugly frame around their windows now. It's probably a not working shadow.
> See e. g.  http://i.imgur.com/tNdVSI6.png
> (Screenshot made with XFCE and kwin, but it happens with xfwm4, too.
> GTK theme = Adwaita-Manjaro. With pure Adwaita, the frame is slightly
> thinner and white, but still exists.)
>
> This is probably related to
> https://blogs.gnome.org/fmuellner/2015/01/30/a-small-note-on-window-decorations/

No it isn't.

> Does anyone know how to get rid of this frame in other DEs?

This looks like it tryes to draw a shadow and fails to do so because
you are not using a compositor.
So file a bug against gtk.
As a workaround enable the compositor provided by your DE.