<![CDATA[[Solved]Menus with black borders]]>Hi there,

I just made a fresh install of Opera, version 78 on Linux Mint. I'm an Opera user from decades and this never happened before. Menus have large, black borders. This is a screenshot I made to show you the problem, the blue squares are made by me to protect my privacy 😁

Image

What can I do to remove this annoying black border?

Thanks!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/50760/solved-menus-with-black-bordersRSS for NodeSat, 14 Mar 2026 19:47:21 GMTFri, 06 Aug 2021 12:08:39 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:52:24 GMT]]>Finally!!!!!!!! Just updated to version 79 and now the black borders are gone!!! Thanks!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/261937https://forums.opera.com/post/261937Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:52:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 21:36:00 GMT]]>@dejwid, thank you! It works fine on Mint 20.2 too!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/261654https://forums.opera.com/post/261654Thu, 09 Sep 2021 21:36:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Fri, 03 Sep 2021 17:02:38 GMT]]>@dejwid Yup I can confirm that this works [Debian 10/Buster] (opera --use-gl=desktop), no black borders and hardware acceleration still works.

It looks like (after viewing opera://gpu/) that --use-gl=desktop disables Google ANGLE and uses the system version of GL.

Diff of opera://gpu (between default and --use-gl=desktop):

-Passthrough Command Decoder	true

+Passthrough Command Decoder	false

-GL_VENDOR	Google Inc. (NVIDIA Corporation)
-GL_RENDERER	ANGLE (NVIDIA Corporation, GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCIe/SSE2, OpenGL 4.5.0 NVIDIA 390.143)
-GL_VERSION	OpenGL ES 2.0.0 (ANGLE 2.1.0 git hash: unknown hash)

+GL_VENDOR	NVIDIA Corporation
+GL_RENDERER	GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
+GL_VERSION	4.5.0 NVIDIA 390.143
 	
-Window system binding vendor	Google Inc. (NVIDIA Corporation)
-Window system binding version	1.5 (ANGLE 2.1.0 git hash: unknown hash)

+Window system binding vendor	NVIDIA Corporation
+Window system binding version	1.4
]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/261223https://forums.opera.com/post/261223Fri, 03 Sep 2021 17:02:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Fri, 03 Sep 2021 16:22:20 GMT]]>@zweieuro There is no need to change something in Opera's flags. You have to disable "Use hardware acceleration when available" option in Menu-Settings. Another way you can try to launch Opera with --use-gl=desktop key, as it was mentioned above.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/261221https://forums.opera.com/post/261221Fri, 03 Sep 2021 16:22:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:43:27 GMT]]>5.10.60-1-MANJARO
I have the same issue, I've also tried turning off hardware accel but the settings were already off or disabled by default.
Running with NVIDIA drivers (just updated those too) but no change.
Compositor is picom.
2021-09-03-01.png

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/261210https://forums.opera.com/post/261210Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:43:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:17:35 GMT]]>@dejwid Yes, it works on my LinuxMint 20.2! Thanks!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/261201https://forums.opera.com/post/261201Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:17:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:51:07 GMT]]>Try to run Opera with --use-gl=desktop flag, you won't lose hardware acceleration, but black borders gone. It works on my Mint 19.3

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/261169https://forums.opera.com/post/261169Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:51:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Sun, 29 Aug 2021 10:25:42 GMT]]>Got this after 78.0.4093.184 update, turn off hardware acceleration temporary fixed :).

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/260750https://forums.opera.com/post/260750Sun, 29 Aug 2021 10:25:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:35:26 GMT]]>@kitsch2003 Me too 😞

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/260626https://forums.opera.com/post/260626Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:35:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:57:12 GMT]]>Same issue here on Ubuntu 21.04 (Opera 78.0.4093.184)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/260611https://forums.opera.com/post/260611Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:57:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 11:32:18 GMT]]>@A Former User said in Menus with black borders:

Re: Menus with black borders

Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome
Opera 78.0.4093.112

After the update, there are also stripes. However, if you turn off hardware acceleration, the stripes disappear.
Bug

2..png 1..png

I'm not sure what you mean by stripes.

If you are talking about the horizontal lines in the menu, those are not part of the bug -- they are menu item separators. They are there even if hardware acceleration is turned of (well at least for me anyway) .

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/260140https://forums.opera.com/post/260140Sat, 21 Aug 2021 11:32:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 05:00:17 GMT]]>@leocg said in Menus with black borders:

@spikespiegel Appears as fixed in Opera 79 changelog:

DNA-94506 [Linux] Menu border has a thick black edge with hardware acceleration on

Well, that's a great news! Thanks!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/260119https://forums.opera.com/post/260119Sat, 21 Aug 2021 05:00:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Fri, 20 Aug 2021 21:19:47 GMT]]>@leocg said in Menus with black borders:

@spikespiegel Appears as fixed in Opera 79 changelog:

DNA-94506 [Linux] Menu border has a thick black edge with hardware acceleration on

@leocg Seems so in 79.0.4128.0.

https://forums.opera.com/topic/50097/opera-dev-79-news/4

New build for Mac and Windows - 79.0.4128.0 ;-)

Some changes, fixes and improvements:
- DNA-94506 [Linux] menu border has a thick black edge with hardware acceleration on.

I'm on Linux at 78.0.4093.147.
I guess I'll just need to wait for for 79.0.4128.0 to hit stable.
And/or turn off accleration for the time being.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/260096https://forums.opera.com/post/260096Fri, 20 Aug 2021 21:19:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:54:31 GMT]]>@spikespiegel Appears as fixed in Opera 79 changelog:

DNA-94506 [Linux] Menu border has a thick black edge with hardware acceleration on

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/260088https://forums.opera.com/post/260088Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:54:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:24:06 GMT]]>So, does anybody in Opera's dev team is aware of this bug?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/260087https://forums.opera.com/post/260087Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:24:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Fri, 13 Aug 2021 21:35:06 GMT]]>Same problem on latest Kubuntu + latest Opera.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/259522https://forums.opera.com/post/259522Fri, 13 Aug 2021 21:35:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Fri, 13 Aug 2021 07:05:50 GMT]]>Works thanks @pindos with turn off the Hardware Acceleration . Same problem with the version - Opera 78.0.4093.147 . But we hope that this problem will be solved after the next update.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/259465https://forums.opera.com/post/259465Fri, 13 Aug 2021 07:05:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:55:29 GMT]]>Just updated Opera to version 78.0.4093.147 and the bug is still there!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/259399https://forums.opera.com/post/259399Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:55:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:06:57 GMT]]>I have the same problem in Manjaro KDE.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/259384https://forums.opera.com/post/259384Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:06:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Wed, 11 Aug 2021 16:45:42 GMT]]>I have the same problem in KDE Neon 5.22 (not wayland)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/259317https://forums.opera.com/post/259317Wed, 11 Aug 2021 16:45:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:46:16 GMT]]>Got the same problem on Mint 19.3 (Cinnamon).

By the way, it also seems that menu appears with animation now. Was it present in previous versions?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/259249https://forums.opera.com/post/259249Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:46:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:40:08 GMT]]>Re: Menus with black borders

Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome
Opera 78.0.4093.112

After the update, there are also stripes. However, if you turn off hardware acceleration, the stripes disappear.
Bug

2..png 1..png

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/259237https://forums.opera.com/post/259237Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:40:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Menus with black borders on Tue, 10 Aug 2021 06:33:36 GMT]]>@pindos It's only a workaround, I'm waiting for a bug fix asap! 🍻

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/259204https://forums.opera.com/post/259204Tue, 10 Aug 2021 06:33:36 GMT