electron: Switching between menus in the menu bar causes flickering if dark theme (Ambiance) is selected

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Issue Details

Electron Version: 4.1.3, 5.0.0-beta6
Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04 x64/Gnome; Ambiance theme
Last Known Working Electron version:: 3.1.7

Expected Behavior

Switching between menus in the menu bar shouldn’t cause flickering.

Actual Behavior

Menus flicker when switching between them with dark theme selected.

To Reproduce

Install an Electron application with menu bar
Make sure dark theme (Ambiance, which is 18.04 default theme) is selected
Switch between menus in the menu bar

Screenshots

flickering

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 13
Comments: 16 (4 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

This is already fixed on VS Code Exploration builds, give it a spin. All we have to do is wait…

Could you please link where can I download the exploration build, since there is many I’d like to be sure using correct one

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/94074#issuecomment-607079209

charbelnicolas on Apr 25, 2020

Doesn’t seem to be Ubuntu specific, I have the same issue on Arch with XFCE and any skin (dark skin just makes it much more obvious it’s happening). VSCode

marvka on Apr 15, 2020