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Desktop icons text is misaligned with text shadow and icon itself
Status:
RESOLVED: WORKSFORME
Product:
Xfdesktop
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General

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Description Tobias 2016-07-13 22:08:25 CEST
Created attachment 6734 
Screenshot of the icon text alignment issue on the desktop

Before I describe the problem, this is my first bugreport here, so I hope this is in the right place. :)

I use Linux Lite 3.0 fully updated on an older x86 32-Bit PC. 

Now onto the issue, when I restarted the PC after I finished setting it up and updating it, I saw that my desktop icons were still in the place I put them, however, for some reason the icon text is not in the right place anymore. The shadow underneath the text is in the right spot, but the text itself is not where it should be. It appears to be moved to the left.

I tried moving the icons around but nothing changed, rebooting yields the same results and changing the icons to something like the gnome icons also doesn't do anything either to the text. This issue only appears on the desktop, not in windows.

I have included a screenshot for a better look at the problem.
 
I'm not very linux savvy so if any additional information is required I would probably need a little info on where and how to find those, especially if the terminal is involved.
Comment 1 Tobias 2016-07-14 01:44:13 CEST
Created attachment 6735 
Second screenshot: Text residue appears when Icons are moved

Here is a small addition:
The second screenshot that I'm adding shows what happens when the Icons are moved from one spot to another on the desktop. As you can see there is some text residue that remains from the original spot where the icons were before.
What is interesting here is that the text on the icon is also cut off, but when you select the icon the text becomes full again.
The text residue also disappears when you move a window above it or try to select it by holding the left mouse button and drawing a rectangle.
Comment 2 Tobias 2016-07-14 17:22:42 CEST
Created attachment 6736 
Third Screenshot: Issue also appears in near stock Virtual Machine

The third screenshot shows my testing with a Oracle VM VirtualBox install of Linux Lite 3.0 with the XFCE desktop.
This install is fully updated and most importantly, fully stock, apart from installing the updates.
The problem shows here as well, following the initial bootup and install of the updates, after a reboot the issue with the icons appears here too.
I rebooted the Virtual Machine a few times but nothing changes, just like on my old x86 PC.
I'm not sure if this is a issue caused by a update or if this would happen without updating the OS and rebooting it.
Comment 3 Nikita Karnauhov 2016-07-21 19:23:29 CEST
Created attachment 6746 
use pango_cairo_show_layout instead of gtk_paint_layout

I've encountered the same problem after a recent update on Fedora 23. I'm attaching a patch that fixed it for me. Not sure if it's the correct approach but looks OK here.
Comment 4 Alexandr 2018-02-05 21:31:29 CET
Created attachment 7579 
The same problems screenshot

The same problem on the latest Manjaro Xfce
Comment 5 Theo Linkspfeifer editbugs 2019-05-03 12:11:01 CEST
Was this bug resolved at some point? Either by an update of xfdesktop or the used GTK theme.
Comment 6 Nikita Karnauhov 2019-05-03 13:46:53 CEST
(In reply to Theo Linkspfeifer from comment #5)
> Was this bug resolved at some point? Either by an update of xfdesktop or the
> used GTK theme.

Works fine for me now (xfdesktop-4.13.2 on Fedora 29).
Comment 7 Theo Linkspfeifer editbugs 2019-05-03 14:08:36 CEST
Thanks for the quick reply.
Comment 8 Alexandr 2019-05-08 22:22:25 CEST
Bug is still exists and shows up sometimes after updates. I suppose it's something like settings collision(~font settings bug) and appearing when user changes gtk-theme or updates current system. It solves easily by removing xfce4 settings and reboot, or system reinstalling.

Bug #12697

Reported by:
Tobias
Reported on: 2016-07-13
Last modified on: 2019-05-08

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Assignee:
Eric Koegel
CC List:
3 users

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