"View" Toolbar menu leaves square portion of desktop background visible in Big Picture mode
Attaching image of Small mode to Big picture mode switch:
I also get this. Also on nvidia. It happens with both xfwm4 and metacity, with compositing enabled or disabled.
What is happening is that Steam opens a popup window for the view menu, you click on BP, the menu pixmap resource is destroyed, but the popup window remains on screen. Because it no longer has a backing pixmap it accumates whatever is drawn on the screen. Because it used to be a menu it draws over the top of most other windows (all but other menus). So it obscures other windows and prevents them from drawing, but has no contents itself. So it permanently shows whatever was most recently drawn at that position. If you run xwininfo and click it you can see it is a window owned by steam, and not a "hole".
As mentioned the two ways to get rid of it are click on the view menu again, or quit steam.
Hello @erpadmin, @ali1234, are either of you still experiencing this issue on an up to date system?
I can no longer reproduce this.
Thanks for retesting @ali1234, closing.
Nothing extracted yet.
When switching from Large Mode view to Big Picture mode there is a square in the shape of the View Toolbar window which contains the desktop background that remains visible.
When switching from small mode to Big Picture mode the results are similar only that the toolbar menu is actually there.
This is on Linux Mint 16 Mate Desktop, latest Nvidia Driver.
So maybe that description is confusing, I will attach some images:
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Work around after the fact is to get back to the desktop and Click "view" again to the get the toolbar menu to close then go back to Big Picture mode. Launching Big Picture mode from the system tray icon or, if in Large mode, the Big Picture (icon?) on the right will avoid the issue.