Hi everyone,

can someone help me out troubleshoot this weird behaviour for my pop-ups? The outlines are just so ugly, it's annoying! I'm on kde 4.9.97

here's some screenshots to explain better https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l3zzn230kq5fgl8/CipYOuMV9t


thank you,

Do you run without compositing? (Which I assume you do, from your screenshots)

einar wrote:Do you run without compositing? (Which I assume you do, from your screenshots)

Actually I am. I am using the latest nvidia (proprietary) drivers and I'm using opengl/raster/smooth.
I tried starting a new fresh session by renaming my .kde folder and the new session doesn't do that (again with the same effect settings, opengl/raster/smooth.)
ideas?

The problem is with the theme you're using - it doesn't have the opacity mask layer, so plasma/kwin don't know that that part should be transparent and that it should not have the blurred background on it.

You were right... it was the desktop theme
Unfortunately I really, really, liked that particular theme (fushigi and Tibanna are the only two I've been using in a while).
Also I've downloaded about 10 more themes from the get new themes page and about 90% have the same problem. Only well established themes like air and aya seem to not have that issue. Is there anything I can do to change it that behavior for the theme to make that part transparent or disable the shaded outline all together?

thank you all for your replies

The best course of action is to contact the theme author.

If that doesn't help, you can either change it yourself, or disable the blur effect.