selection lines are not visible

[muralikodali]

though selection is working and copied to clipboard, selection box is not appearing at the time selection making it difficult to know the exact area of selection.

dependencies are satisfied and i have installed hacksaw from source.

[9ary]

What DE or WM are you running? Are you running a compositor on top of that?

[expectocode]

Have you tried using the option to set the width of the lines?

[muralikodali]

using ubuntu-mate 18.04.3 with window manager Metacity (Marco). Marco Adavptive compositor.

[muralikodali]

i ran the command hacksaw -s 3. but no use.

[9ary]

Try to disable compositing and see if it makes a difference. None of us uses MATE, so it's kinda hard for us to help you.

[muralikodali]

changed the option to Marco without compositing. guidelines are visible now. but it's difficult to enjoy my work without compositing.

[9ary]

Disabling compositing is not a fix, it's a workaround. We need to figure out why this is happening. Try slop with compositing enabled and --noopengl to see if it works. If it does then this is a bug on our side, otherwise you should report this to the MATE developers.

[muralikodali]

i have tried slop. it is working well. it has problem when i tried with --noopengl.

[9ary]

Then this is a bug with MATE. Please file a bug report with them and link this one there. You can tell them it's a problem with xshape. You could also try xeyes to see if that works properly.

[pickfire]

@muralikodali Try echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE?