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PaperNick

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Registered: 2013-05-26

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Indicator menus are not properly resized

If I click on the network manager applet, the newly opened menu will not be resized properly – the contents of the menu are more than the menu's frame. If I want to navigate through every element, I have to scroll continuously.

Here's and illustration of the description above:
http://i.imgur.com/St8J9li.png

This problem occurs in every applet that dynamically changes its content and when the panel is placed on the bottom of the screen. Radio Tray is another example – in this case there are not scrolling arrows but instead, a part of the menu is positioned out of the visible zone.

Another shot:
http://i.imgur.com/Ug9nyq4.png

There is an old bug report about this issue regarding gnome-panel:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/965953

Any ideas how to solve this in Xfce?

Last edited by PaperNick (2014-12-11 09:05:31)

sixsixfive

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Registered: 2012-04-08

Posts: 579

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Re: Indicator menus are not properly resized

install a gtk3 theme that matches your gtk2 theme or use a different network manager

Wicd:

http://wicd.sourceforge.net needs python

connman:

https://01.org/connman
https://github.com/tbursztyka/connman-ui needs gtk3
https://github.com/eurogiciel-oss/connman-json-client needs ncurses
https://github.com/march-linux/connman_dmenu needs dmenu
https://github.com/andrew-bibb/cmst needs qt

ceni:  needs ncurses
http://bugs.siduction.org/projects/siduction/wiki/Ceni
http://manual.siduction.org/inet-ceni

Last edited by sixsixfive (2014-12-11 09:08:30)

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PaperNick

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Re: Indicator menus are not properly resized

Like I said, the problem affects every applet that is handled by indicator plugin. I tried Wicd and everything worked ok, because notification area handles this applet.

I'm using the default Greybird theme that comes with Xubuntu 14.04. I saw that Greybird has GTK3 support. Any tips on how to make it use the GTK3 theme?

Thanks for sharing these interesting network managers, never heard of them before.

sixsixfive

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Re: Indicator menus are not properly resized

I'm using the default Greybird theme that comes with Xubuntu 14.04. I saw that Greybird has GTK3 support.

the problem with gtk3 is that it breaks themes with every minor release so greybird might support gtk 3.8 but you will have issues with gtk 3.8.4, 3.10, 3.12, 3.14...

Any tips on how to make it use the GTK3 theme?

if the gtk-3.0 folder is in the same dir as the gtk-2.0 folder(~/.themes/greybird/gtk-$VER or $SYSPREFIX/share/themes/greybird/gtk-$VER) it should autoenable the gtk3 theme but as far as i can see it's already set(same colors) so it's a greybird bug

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PaperNick

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Re: Indicator menus are not properly resized

the problem with gtk3 is that it breaks themes with every minor release so greybird might support gtk 3.8 but you will have issues with gtk 3.8.4, 3.10, 3.12, 3.14...

Ahh, I see

if the gtk-3.0 folder is in the same dir as the gtk-2.0 folder(~/.themes/greybird/gtk-$VER or $SYSPREFIX/share/themes/greybird/gtk-$VER) it should autoenable the gtk3 theme but as far as i can see it's already set(same colors) so it's a greybird bug

I tried several different themes but the problem remains. It is probably a GTK issue, I guess.

ToZ

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Re: Indicator menus are not properly resized

Xubuntu 14.04 currently has gtk3 version 3.10.8, xfce4-indicator-plugin 2.3.2-0 and network-manager version 0.9.8.8. With the default Greybird theme, I can't replicate this issue. Have you upgraded any of those components manually or through a PPA?

Also, have you made any changes to your gtk3 override files (~/.config/gtk-3.0/* or /etc/gtk-3.0/*)?

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PaperNick

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Re: Indicator menus are not properly resized

I haven't upgraded anything, the package versions you mentioned are the same as mine. I haven't touched the configurations either.