Noticed the app shortcuts on my desktop have a black/dark gray backgrounnd color behind the app names. Minor issue and realize its probably to increase contrast, but was wondering if this was a thing I could toggle on/off? Looked around settings but couldn’t find anything
No, it’s deliberate and it renders text legible against varying backgrounds.
I’m also pretty confident that it’s not a new colour - it’s been there as long as I can remember.
If you don’t like the shadow, then use a dark background - then the text will stand out.
If you prefer light backgrounds, then I’d like to know how you will be able to read the light text without a shadow or background to it.
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I resolved my problem shortly after posting, apparently my graphics rendering had swapped to “software” instead of automatic while I was away from the machine.
There were some other graphical things happening on my lower task bar such as CPU/GPU/RAM monitoring widgets in my taskbar only showing text values and no pie chart values. Swapping the rendering choice back to automatic and restarting the machine fixed it.
Ah, are we talking about compositing? I remember back with Linux Mint on X11 - if I disabled compositing I’d lose the ‘shadow’ and get a rectangular contrast behind the text…
So we might assume this is some X11/compositing glitch, right?
It’s helpful when posting if you offer information in advance - generally I recommend something like inxi -zv8 | grep -vE 'MAC|UUID|IP' to take the guesswork out of it.