Blue Task bar on snap and flatpaks specifically on spotify snap and grayjay flatpak it seems like a theming issue on gnome 50
It’s a bug with Spotify linux client that occurs with the flatpak and deb versions as well.
It’s been going on for a few months.
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/Snap-version-without-themed-window-bar/td-p/7297962
The latest candidate snap version (1.2.86.502.g8cd7fb22 revision 94) fixes this, though it really isn’t fixed. It’s now just hard-coded to run as a Xwayland app (–ozone-platform=x11).
This version also has other bugs like not being able to play/add to playlist local stored music files, canvas animations are disabled (looped animated album covers for example) as well as video not working (at least with Nvidia driver).
The linux version was a pretty good working client, but it’s really a mess now. I reverted the Spotify client to an older version (1.2.74.477.g3be53afe) that’s not listed, but is still in the snap store repository (at least for the moment).
"sudo snap refresh spotify --revision=89" to install it
"sudo snap refresh spotify --hold" to keep it from updating
thanks so its an electron library issue? because grayjay has it too
It’s a Chromium issue, you can see this ugly title bar if you use the Chromium profile switcher. A developer recently sent a patch upstream that improves the decorations for this, unfortunately can’t find the patch.
Well, its a wayland/chromium issue. Wayland generally does not provide window decoration (titlebar, buttons, right-click menus, etc) instead it leaves that to wayland supported applications so that they can customize the look and function of their app. Normally, an application would include some toolkit libraries like gtk or qt to draw its windows in wayland or link to toolkit libraries that have been installed system-wide. It didn’t in this case so it basically defaulted to using chromium’s stock windows-95 looking decoration.
The spotify version I reverted to includes gkt3 libraries with the application that it uses to draw its windows which us why it looks like a normal gtk3/gnome application under wayland without needing to run it as an Xwayland application.
I don’t know what grayjay is so I can’t say if its the same issue.
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