topic Re: [Desktop] [Linux] [GNOME] Top bar broken (looks like an old windows app in Desktop (Linux)

[Desktop] [Linux] [GNOME] Top bar broken (looks like an old windows app

BorisGPenev — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:06:49 GMT

The top bar on GNOME (atleast on 49.4) looks like an old windows app/broken. I recently updated my app (it does it on the flatpak version and the snap version too, I tried both, tried clearing cache, updating my system, packages). Is there any way to fix it or do I have to wait for a patch/update to fix it?

Plan

Premium

Country

Bulgaria

Device

Custom PC/Computer

Operating System

CachyOS x86_64 Linux 6.19.6-2-cachyos

Re: [Desktop] [Linux] [GNOME] Top bar broken (looks like an old windows app

Petrikm — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:24:11 GMT

The same thing happening to me when I use the flatpak (installed from Gnome Software, so maybe that still counts as the supported version?) on CachyOS (Gnome DE). While the titlebar looks like a windows program as if it were some wine fork of the windows software, my 'about spotify' says "Spotify for Linux 1.2.82.428.g0ac8be2b".

Even though Gnome is the unofficially supported DE, on my desktop with CachyOS KDE, the titlebar is perfectly normal.

Re: [Desktop] [Linux] [GNOME] Top bar broken (looks like an old windows app

uk1y0 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:01:29 GMT

On ZorinOS GNOME, installed via flatpak, same issue 😢. It worked on Bazzite KDE Plasma so might just be a GNOME issue.

Re: [Desktop] [Linux] [GNOME] Top bar broken (looks like an old windows app

gr1m — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:51:50 GMT

force launch the app in X11 mode

Re: [Desktop] [Linux] [GNOME] Top bar broken (looks like an old windows app

BorisGPenev — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:02:48 GMT

wont launch in X11, even with sudo

Re: [Desktop] [Linux] [GNOME] Top bar broken (looks like an old windows app

BorisGPenev — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:03:35 GMT

Could be just a GNOME problem but ive used spotify for a few year now on Gnome and never had this problem

Re: [Desktop] [Linux] [GNOME] Top bar broken (looks like an old windows app

gr1m — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:07:27 GMT

try adding these flags -enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations,UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=x11