Corrupt Menu Rendering

[enly1]

Issue Type: Bug

Menus rendering broken with update to electron. Appears to be gpu acceleration related - fixed by starting with --disable-gpu

Running on Dell XPS 9570 ( nvidia and intel )

Looks like an upstream issue now impacting vscode.

VS Code version: Code 1.26.1 (493869ee8e8a846b0855873886fc79d480d342de, 2018-08-16T18:34:20.517Z) OS version: Linux x64 4.15.0-30-generic

System Info

|Item|Value| |---|---| |CPUs|Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz (12 x 2294)| |GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
checker_imaging: disabled_off
flash_3d: enabled
flash_stage3d: enabled
flash_stage3d_baseline: enabled
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
native_gpu_memory_buffers: disabled_software
rasterization: disabled_software
video_decode: unavailable_software
video_encode: unavailable_software
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled| |Load (avg)|1, 1, 1| |Memory (System)|15.31GB (11.82GB free)| |Process Argv|/usr/share/code/code --unity-launch| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

Extensions (1)

Extension|Author (truncated)|Version ---|---|--- python|ms-|2018.7.1

[bpasero]

@enly1 do you have a screenshot?

[lukewiwa]

Like this perhaps?

[enly1]

@lukewiwa

This is the screenshot from vscode when not running --disable-gpu

Same problem showing up in Chrome ... Disabling GPU acceleration works fine.

My laptop is a Dell XPS9570 i7 Linux mint 19 installed Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz Intel graphics and NVidia 1050-TI-MaxQ

vscode was okay on this machine until recent update, although not sure which one and if it was vscode, chrome, electron or drivers.

vscode is fine in Windows as is chrome with the same version of chrome and electron (in vscode, windows was insiders)

So looks like an upstream issue - but another reason I'm thinking that this laptop isn't the winner for me.

[enly1]

Can't add image to edited post, so adding it here.

[bpasero]

@enly1 as a workaround you could configure "window.titleBarStyle": "custom". Are you on ArchLinux by any chance?

@lukewiwa your issue seems different because it looks like you are using our custom menu, can you report a separate issue?

[enly1]

@bpasero - afraid I can't use that workaround. The reason I am using that titlebar setting currently is to workaround a bug / regression with precision touchpad drivers which results in scroll lockups etc. (Don't have the issue number to hand)

The fix for that was to disable custom titlebars. Catch22.

[enly1]

@bpasero - I've worked around it for now by hacking --disable-gpu into the launch command for the electron app as I launch it from many places (launchers etc), so can't add it manually to command lines when using.

[bpasero]

@enly1 is this ArchLinux?

@enly1 can you try to reproduce with a newer build that is using Electron 3.0.x: https://az764295.vo.msecnd.net/exploration/57d01751b88c89046b33be3f1d55f860041fd27b/code-exploration-1534445620.tar.gz

[enly1]

@bpasero - Linux Mint 19 - mate desktop. Linux dev-XPS-15-9570 4.15.0-32-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 10 17:58:07 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I'll take a look at electron 3 over the next couple of days - limited time available at present.

[enly1]

@bpasero - just tested electron 3 - same issue.

[7underlines]

I have the same problem as lukewiwa in the 2nd post on solus linux. vscode version 1.26.1 uname -a Linux logmediapc002 4.17.14-86.current #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug 11 13:47:11 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[bpasero]

@logTom @enly1 did this happen in previous versions of VSCode too?

[7underlines]

No. This bug only occurs for me with "window.titleBarStyle": "custom". I will stick with "window.titleBarStyle": "native" until this issue is solved. Here is the full "Help"->"About" dialog:

[bpasero]

Yeah sorry, I was referring to those that see this issue with the native title.

[enly1]

@bpasero - just tested electron 3 - same issue.

[enly1]

@bpasero - It was working fine with vscode - I know it was good as I settled on the alt menu style when I worked out the bug for the scrolling issues - wasn't there then.

This is an upstream issue with chrome as far as I can tell, cascaded down into electron and vscode.

[sbatten]

@logTom, you may see this issue in the custom titlebar resolved in the latest insiders as some rendering changes were made relating to mnemonics. If you would like to give it a try and let us know that would be great. Thanks, SteVen

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