I have no options to login, change theme, change renderer, etc.

[notNSANE]

Using Linux Mint (Edit: Xfce) 18.3, app downloaded from the Software Manager. Total Linux noob so I have no idea how to fix this.

All I have are buttons to change Channels, Follows and Games, and icons to reload, search, minimize, maximize, and close. Right clicking does nothing useful.

[vinszent]

I'm not sure what window manager you are using, but you want to open the app menu. In GNOME it's usually located in the top bar here.

[TingPing]

In Cinnamon I believe it shows up as a menu button in the headerbar.

[notNSANE]

I've been watching some videos and it seems the app is missing this icon on the top left:

Any ideas? I'm using Linux Mint Xfce, sorry for not mentioning it earlier. I updated everything I could, not sure if I have to update anything else.

Thank you so much for your fast responses!

[TingPing]

You can verify in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini that the gtk-decoration-layout value has menu in it (or does not exist): https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-decoration-layout

[vinszent]

Adding to what @TingPing wrote, you can add gtk-shell-shows-app-menu=false which should force GT to show the app menu like in your picture.

[notNSANE]

After much googling and trying to find where the settings.ini file was (in my case it was on /etc/gtk-3.0/), and how to actually get permissions to edit it, I inputted the two commands you told me and the icon still don't appear.

[notNSANE]

Also, is there a way to clear the settings of this app so I can get the prompt to change renderer? I selected the first one and it lags on 1080p (it didn't lagged in Win10)

[vinszent]

The settings file is in your home folder under .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini (.config is a hidden folder, you can press Ctrl+H to show it in your file manager). The renderer is changed in the settings dialogue, so you'll need to open that from the app menu.

Just as a quickfix, you can run gsettings reset com.vinszent.GnomeTwitch player-backend to reset the player backend which will give you the option to choose it again.

[notNSANE]

I solved the issue by installing Linux Mint MATE (18.3), the icon appeared and I could change all, so no idea if that bug is just from the Xfce version.

Performance is OK, though it lags a bit in 1080p@60FPS, but 720p@60 works fine and that's all I need. I'm guessing it's the drivers and not this software - I'm using a very old notebook with an Intel CPU + integrated Intel GPU.

The most important issue is that I had no buffering issues, which I have when using twitch.tv via Firefox, since I use this notebook via Wi Fi and it's quite away from the router.

Thanks again for the help and gratz for the app, it's really well done. If I might add a simple suggestion (besides researching this bug with Xfce), maybe add a way to fully disconnect from the Twitch chat channel (and not just hide it), so it saves some bandwidth, which might be critical in more crowded streams. Cheers! I leave up to you the decision to close this issue or not.

[vinszent]

Great! Happy it worked in the end.