gtk3: windows displayed as all black, for x11 install

[asic512]

I work on a Macbook M1, Monterey 12.6 and X11 with icewm.

I have a problem with applications such as nautilus, evince, gnome-chess etc: I suspect something related to gtk3 or gnome. The problem is the following: for each case, the windows opens and looks as usual but as soon as I move the cursor the background in the window becomes black. Moreover some icons look strange.

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Can you provide two screenshots: One for the initial case (where the windows look fine), along with the second (after the background changes to black).

[asic512]

Screenshot of gnome-chess opened with x11

[asic512]

Thank you for your answer. I have added a screenshot of gnome-chess with wrong background. Note that the background looks grey in the .png file but it is in fact black on my screen! Moreover if I take a screenshot when gnome-chess looks fine, I got exactly the same picture (grey background).

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

I did some digging through upstream's issues, and I didn't see anything related to black windows for X11. There were such issues with Quartz, but those appear to have been fixed a year ago.

So I'm not sure where to go from here. Thoughts anyone...?

[asic512]

I should add that I work with XQuartz 1.20.11. Is there any known problem with gtk3? I should also add that a white background keeps white while a grey background becomes black after moving the mouse. Can I fix this configuring differently gtk3? Anyway most of the icons look strange.

[LenoreHorner]

Discussion at ​https://github.com/XQuartz/XQuartz/issues/31 suggests XQuartz 2.8.3_rc1 plus setting defaults write org.xquartz.X11 enable_render_extension 0 might fix the problem (or might make things cripplingly slow). I can (barely) read Gnucash through this, but it's quite painful and I'd love to see a fix. What can I do to help?

[LenoreHorner]

The defaults write does not fix things for me on M1 on Ventura using xorg-server that I just checked for updates today.

[asic512]

I use GNU Emacs 28.2: no problem. I use Nautilus: black issue (even if I can see the list of files). I use Evince: black issue for the menus but the pdf is OK. So the problem seems to come from gtk. My Windows Manager is IceWM.

[tcwan (TC Wan)]

Ventura 13.4, on Mac Mini M2, with XQuartz 2.8.5.

MacPorts 2.8.1, with latest gtk3@3.24.38_0+x11, still exhibits blacked out windows for gnucash@5.0_1. When starting gnucash, the main window will display correctly, though the menu items are inverted (gray text on black). However, once I open an account tab, the new tab would be black, and occasionally I can get it to revert to white background by fiddling around with clicking on a row and moving the mouse. It will rever to black once I do something in the window.

Were the patches to fix the gtk3 blacked out windows incorporated into 3.24.38_0? Or is the gnucash behavior due to some other issue? evince displays the menu items correctly. Similarly with dia, though the x-y rulers where the pixel coordinates are displayed will become black when the mouse is moved around.