On Wayland with multiple displays, the overview background on the primary display is gray sometimes

[lunaneff]

Quick screen recording showing this: https://nextcloud.laurinneff.ch/s/rdr8nDMZWeQBqE9 (uploaded on another site because GH doesn't support .webm)

On Xorg, it always works as it should. Non-primary displays also work every time. It only happens on the primary display, when multiple displays are connected, and if it's running on Wayland

(I haven't tried it with three displays, maybe the behavior is different then)

[ozboss]

Can confirm.

• Gnome 40.2
• Wayland
• Two monitors
• Primary display stays grey

[aunetx]

Thanks for the issue, it's really weird to have different behaviour with wayland and with xorg (like for #95)...
Does it happen independently if you use the keyboard shortcut, the trackpad gestures and the activities button to enter overview?

[lunaneff]

It doesn't matter how I open the overview, it's always random (tried trackpad and touchscreen gestures, super key, alt+f1, activities button, hot corner)

[aunetx]

Okay thanks! Will soon test on wayland

[jbingram]

Hi, I detect the same behavior on my laptop, when I'm choosing my other screen as my primary monitor. I'm using wayland too.
no random behavior detected with super key, trackpad or alt+f1.
Thx for your help

[Fallenod]

Confirm too. Wayland, Gnome 40, two monitors.

[HritwikSinghal]

can confirm that this bug exists on Manjaro Gnome 40.4 on wayland. If I have a secondary monitor connected with my laptop, there is no blur on my primary monitor. I have also attached the screenrecord. tell me if you need logs.
And this is a freshly installed system. (just installed yesterday)

ffmpeg-output.mp4

[GlenMerlin]

I have the same issue here but interestingly I can consistently launch it blurred if I click on the application menu button in dash to dock on the second monitor

clicking it on the primary monitor blurs about 1/4th to 1/6th of the time but clicking on the secondary monitor blurs 100% of the time

[nokyan]

Can confirm, it's pretty random as far as I know. Fedora 35, GNOME 41, NVIDIA, 2 monitors, Wayland.

[jvlianodorneles]

Confirmed. But here the display is always gray in the primary monitor.

Fedora 35, GNOME 41, AMD/ATI Radeon HD 7450, 2 monitors, Wayland.

[aunetx]

Could you give me, in looking glass (alt+f2, type lg), the result of the following when it is not working (I mean you are in the overview, and it is grey in one monitor):

// type
Main.layoutManager.overviewGroup.get_child_at_index(0).hide()
// and then (not simultaneoulsy)
Main.layoutManager.overviewGroup.get_child_at_index(0).show()

// and if it does not work, replacing 0 by 1:
Main.layoutManager.overviewGroup.get_child_at_index(1).hide()
Main.layoutManager.overviewGroup.get_child_at_index(1).show()

If this fixes the wallpaper blur, this means there is a (possible) hack to fix this issue, and I could try to implement it as an option. Else, idk...

[lunaneff]

I'm still on GNOME 40.1 (my current distro hasn't updated yet) and Main.layoutManager.overviewGroup.get_children_at_index doesn't exist, but Main.layoutManager.overviewGroup.get_child_at_index does. I assumed it was renamed, so I tried it with that function, and with index 1 that fixed it