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Package: cinnamon
Version: 5.4.10-2
Severity: important
Hey.
After upgrading to 5.2, programs (e.g. gnome-terminal) that
previously still used window decorations from my configured
theme ("TraditionalOk") no longer uses those.
At first I thought cinnamon made them somehow use ugly CSDs
but it just seems that what previously was configured as
"Window borders" is no longer there.
What's used now seems pretty inferior, e.g. one can barely
distinguish which window has the focus, since both colours
are some rather similar grey, while previousl I had blue
for focus, and grey for non-focus.
Could this possibly be fixed?
Thanks,
Chris.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages cinnamon depends on:
ii cinnamon-common 5.4.10-2
ii cinnamon-control-center 5.4.6-2
ii cinnamon-desktop-data 5.4.2-2
ii cinnamon-screensaver 5.4.2-1
ii cinnamon-session 5.4.0-1
ii cinnamon-settings-daemon 5.4.5-2
ii cjs 5.4.1-1
ii cups-pk-helper 0.2.6-1+b1
ii dbus 1.14.0-2
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-3
ii gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 22.08.8-1
ii gir1.2-caribou-1.0 0.4.21-7.2
ii gir1.2-clutter-1.0 1.26.4+dfsg-4
ii gir1.2-cmenu-3.0 5.4.0-1
ii gir1.2-cogl-1.0 1.22.8-3
ii gir1.2-cvc-1.0 5.4.2-2
ii gir1.2-ecal-2.0 3.44.4-1
ii gir1.2-edataserver-1.2 3.44.4-1
ii gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 2.42.8+dfsg-2
ii gir1.2-gkbd-3.0 3.26.1-2
ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.72.0-1+b1
ii gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 42.3-1
ii gir1.2-goa-1.0 3.44.0-1
ii gir1.2-gsound-1.0 1.0.3-2
ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.24.34-1
ii gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0 1.8.4-4+b1
ii gir1.2-ical-3.0 3.0.14-1+b1
ii gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 0.3.2-1.1
ii gir1.2-nemo-3.0 5.4.3-2
ii gir1.2-nm-1.0 1.38.4-1
ii gir1.2-nma-1.0 1.8.40-1
ii gir1.2-notify-0.7 0.8.1-1
ii gir1.2-pango-1.0 1.50.9+ds-1
ii gir1.2-polkit-1.0 0.105-33
ii gir1.2-timezonemap-1.0 0.4.6-3
ii gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 0.99.20-1
ii gir1.2-xapp-1.0 2.2.13-1
ii gkbd-capplet 3.26.1-2
ii gnome-backgrounds 42.0-1
ii gnome-themes-extra 3.28-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 42.0-1
ii iso-flags-png-320x240 1.0.2-1.1
ii libatk-bridge2.0-0 2.38.0-4
ii libatk1.0-0 2.38.0-1
ii libc6 2.34-3
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-6
ii libcinnamon-desktop4 5.4.2-2
ii libcinnamon-menu-3-0 5.4.0-1
ii libcjs0 5.4.1-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.8+dfsg-2
ii libgirepository-1.0-1 1.72.0-1+b1
ii libgles2 1.4.0-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.72.3-1+b1
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.72.3-1+b1
ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.20.3-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.34-1
ii libmuffin0 5.4.5-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.50.9+ds-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.50.9+ds-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.1-2
ii libxapp1 2.2.13-1
ii libxfixes3 1:6.0.0-1
ii libxml2 2.9.14+dfsg-1+b1
ii mesa-utils 8.5.0-1
ii muffin 5.4.5-2
ii nemo 5.4.3-2
ii network-manager-gnome 1.28.0-1
ii pkexec 0.105-33
ii policykit-1-gnome 0.105-7+b1
ii psmisc 23.5-3
ii python3 3.10.6-1
ii python3-dbus 1.2.18-3+b2
ii python3-distro 1.7.0-1
ii python3-gi 3.42.2-1
ii python3-gi-cairo 3.42.2-1
ii python3-pampy 2.0.2-1
ii python3-pexpect 4.8.0-3
ii python3-pil 9.2.0-1+b1
ii python3-pyinotify 0.9.6-2
ii python3-requests 2.27.1+dfsg-1
ii python3-setproctitle 1.2.2-2+b2
ii python3-tinycss2 1.1.1-2
ii python3-tz 2022.1-1
ii xapp 2.2.13-1
Versions of packages cinnamon recommends:
pn blueman <none>
ii cinnamon-core 5.4.1
ii cinnamon-l10n 5.4.2-2
ii gnome-terminal 3.44.1-1
pn inxi <none>
ii libcanberra-pulse 0.30-10
pn metacity-common <none>
Versions of packages cinnamon suggests:
ii cinnamon-desktop-environment 5.4.1
ii cinnamon-doc 5.4.10-2
pn python3-opencv <none>
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Hello Chris,
closing this one. Window decorations are drawn from the GTK3 theme since
the muffin rebase in 5.4, as I explained back then: it is an upstream
design change, and there is nothing I can fix at the packaging level.
These things need to be reported and discussed upstream, if I remember
good was already done and one long discussion was also closed.
The follow-up filed against this bug in November 2025 was about
something else entirely (the "Style" page of the Themes settings module),
so I split it out as #1145996.
Thanks for the report and for the detailed feedback.
Regards,
Fabio Fantoni
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