UI Bug - Currently playing song's name overlaps with Album name

[PriorSVK]

Plan

Free

Country

Slovakia

Device

Dell Laptop

Operating System

Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

My Question or Issue

The bottom-left corner of the Client shows the currently playing song. First is the song's name and below that the Album. However there's a visual bug, where the songs name is copied again right below the Album and overlaps it - making it very difficult to read the Album. This overlapping oscillates randomly- every few seconds. Please see the attachment.

[mfiore]

Hi,

I found out that this issue is cause by gpu acceleration, you can launch spotify with no gpu acceleration by simply typing in a terminal:

spotify --disable-gpu

You can try for yourself and see if it works...

If it does you should change the desktop file for spotify which you can find in /usr/share/applications/spotify.desktop you can open it with whatever text editor you like (make sure to have the permission to write the file) and change the Exec line by appending the --disable-gpu switch.

Hope this helps!

[dudskh]

Hi, thanks for the tip. it worked here!

Just commenting that I faced the same issue on Google Chrome Browser. When disabling the hardware acceleration, the bug was fixed.

I've tried to reproduce the same behavior on Firefox, but Mozilla didn't display this issue, even with GPU processing enabled.

For anyone facing this UI Bug on Chrome Browser, just go to chrome://settings/system and disable the "Use hardware acceleration when available" option.

Specs:

    OS: Kubuntu 22.10

    DE: KDE Plasma 5.25.5

    GPU: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]
    Google Chrome: Version 116.0.5845.110 (Official Build) (64-bit)