[SOLVED] Atom menu weirdness

AL^ · 2017-08-22 01:59:10

I installed atom and the menu's are going weird. Please see the screenshots:

The first is the menu, but then when I move the mouse over an item I get the black box as shown in 2nd.

I installed atom on my Lubuntu partition and it worked ok, but I really want to to use here on BL.
Any ideas?

Thanks.

Last edited by AL^ (2017-08-24 12:16:54)

Bearded_Blunder · 2017-08-22 02:43:41

None at all, but then I'm not sure what it's supposed to do LOL

damo · 2017-08-22 03:33:21

I just d/l'd and extracted the standalone archive version of Atom, and it runs fine on BL (stretch). Do you have all the dependencies? Do you get the issue with another gtk/ob theme?

Anything useful in ~/.xsession-errors, or in the terminal?

AL^ · 2017-08-22 03:55:09

nothing useful in .xsession-errors that stood out to me, and no errors in terminal.

I was missing a dependancy when I installed it (can't remember which one) but I installed it and it seemed to install ok.

Not sure if it's related or a separate issue but sometimes after going to sleep the cursor goes invisible on my external monitor (hooked up through laptop). It's there because I can tell when I hover over links. So far I can reboot and it comes back, but it's annoying.

Thanks.

damo · 2017-08-22 04:07:39

Sounds like a graphics card issue. Are there any differences with compositing on/off? What is your graphics setup?

AL^ · 2017-08-22 04:47:43

No, I tried restarting compositing and it didn't help.

Not sure how to tell my graphics setup... I remember someone asked for the results of lspci, so here are mine:

VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C51 [GeForce Go 6150] (rev a2)

What other copy/paste do you need?
Thanks.

damo · 2017-08-22 04:57:21

Have you tried with compositing disabled? Are you using the default nouveau driver or nvidia-driver?

(This probably needs a hardware guru to sort out 8o )

AL^ · 2017-08-22 05:09:11

Yes, I tried with compositing disabled... same results. I'm pretty sure I'm using nouveau driver because I tried the nvidia-driver a while back and b0rked it and had to reinstall BL.

Thanks.

damo · 2017-08-22 05:34:47

How did you install Atom? Using 'sudo dpkg' or gdebi on the deb? Perhaps try the tar.gz download, which doesn't need installing, and will have all the libs that are needed. Just to see if there is a difference.

brontosaurusrex · 2017-08-22 09:51:04

On stretch quickly tested the one in repos (1.12.5) and deb from page (1.19.2) and they both look good with Arc-Darker (from repos). There might be some gtk related fixes in latest, based on observation (slightly smaller fonts in menus), so worth testing if you didn't already.

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kitemmu · 2017-08-22 19:01:49

I have 1.13.0 on x64 and no problem here.
Tell us more about your PC and how you installed Atom

AL^ · 2017-08-23 01:27:55

I downloaded the .deb and installed it. I'm downloading the .tar.gz now and will try installing that way... but being new to linux what do I do? I figure once it downloads it will open the GUI "unzip" program but will it just unpack into the correct directories or do I need to tell it?

What do you want to know about my laptop... aren't there a few commands that normally a newbie is asked to run and copy/paste?

Thanks.

AL^ · 2017-08-23 01:29:22

I forgot to mention that I went ahead and sudo dpkg -r atom in case there was a problem with the one I downloaded and installed from the .deb

damo · 2017-08-23 01:37:25

Just d/l the archive to somewhere in your $HOME and untar it, as described on the Download page. The whole point is that you are not installing it: it is a standalone package which will not affect your system. There is an Atom executable in the extracted directory - just run that. For example I used...

$ ./downloads/atom-1.19.2-amd64/atom

Read up on how to run executables in Linux

AL^ · 2017-08-23 01:47:18

Downloaded it and ran it and same results. Something I didn't notice before is the edit menu works fine... I can hover and select items in it, but all the other menus create the black box like before.

Since it works fine for others I'm guessing it's a video card problem (that and the fact that my mouse disappears sometimes after coming out of sleep).

So... next step?
Thanks.

DeepDayze · 2017-08-23 01:55:58

Are you using nouveau or the NVIDIA proprietary driver?

AL^ · 2017-08-23 01:59:48

I think nouveau... how can I tell?

damo · 2017-08-23 02:01:29

AL^ wrote:

Downloaded it and ran it and same results. ...

OK, so it is unlikely to be due to Atom, so you can delete that d/l'd archive version.

So... next step?
Thanks.

You read up on nvidia in Debian...https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers. You may need the legacy 304 driver, but you need to check out what your system needs. Install 'nvidia-detect' and run it to tell you which driver is recommended.

DeepDayze · 2017-08-23 02:05:18

AL^ wrote:

I think nouveau... how can I tell?

One way to check is:

In terminal:

$ inxi -G

which will produce output that looks like this:

Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 730]
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.3 )
           drivers: nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1680x1050@59.95hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVC1 version: 4.3 Mesa 17.1.5

damo · 2017-08-23 02:19:02

^ inxi needs to be installed for that.

lsmod | grep 'nvidia\|nouveau'

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