Neovide: Multigrid: telescope.nvim plugin text is burred

[chrisbouchard]

When I enable multigrid, the telescope.nvim plugin's popup windows have blurred text. The popup window outlines are solid, but the contents are blurred and dimmed, as if they are in the background.

I'm reporting this here, but I'm not really sure if this is a telescope issue or a Neovide issue.

I'm using Neovide built today from e1d8d404167f5c6d5471ce1404493eb1805e94d2 (main) on Linux using Rust 1.50.0 stable.

[chrisbouchard]

(I deleted a comment about the buffer behind not being blurred because I was just crazy — it's not supposed to be.)

[Kethku]

This is a known issue. Telescope renders two windows, and neovide doesn't have a way to turn off window background blurring on a per window basis. The change to enable that is somewhat involved because it requires reworking the setting syncing logic. Its in progress, but I haven't gotten the time to go hammer it out yet.

[chrisbouchard]

Understood. Thanks for letting me know; I'm happy to use Neovide without multigrid until that's resolved, but I get it may be low priority.

[Kethku]

its actually relatively high priority. The new multigrid stuff is awesome and I'd like to get it running for most people

[p13nty]

I really love multiGrid mode and can't work without smooth scroll anymore!

So maybe someone would be interested in quick and dirty workaround for this - I disabled border from plenary.nvim that is used by popup.nvim plugin and use builtin neovim border. It does not support window titles but it looks like this:

To apply this go to directory where popup plugin sits, for me its ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/paqs/start/popup.nvim
Create file no-border.patch with diff below and git apply no-border.patch

diff --git a/lua/popup/init.lua b/lua/popup/init.lua
index 8d8fe6e..d036700 100644
--- a/lua/popup/init.lua
+++ b/lua/popup/init.lua
@@ -157,6 +157,10 @@ function popup.create(what, vim_options)

   win_opts.style = 'minimal'

+  if vim_options.border then
+      win_opts.border = 'single'
+  end
+
   -- Feels like maxheigh, minheight, maxwidth, minwidth will all be related
   --
   -- maxheight  Maximum height of the contents, excluding border and padding.
@@ -328,7 +332,7 @@ function popup.create(what, vim_options)

   local border = nil
   if should_show_border then
-    border = Border:new(bufnr, win_id, win_opts, border_options)
+    --border = Border:new(bufnr, win_id, win_opts, border_options)
   end

   if vim_options.highlight then

[igorsol]

I have the same issue with coc.nvim's code actions window:

[Kethku]

Closing in favor of more detailed issue https://github.com/Kethku/neovide/issues/589

[chrisbouchard]

@Kethku I had a look at #589, and that seems to be more about font rendering than multigrid. It's possible I'm missing a more fundamental issue that underlies both, but I feel like this is different.

[Kethku]

https://github.com/Kethku/neovide/issues/720 woops this is the one I meant

[last-partizan]

let g:neovide_window_floating_opacity=1

I'm using this as workaround, floating windows are not longer transparent, but other features of multigrid working fine.

[Shatur]

I'm using this as workaround

Tried it, but the telescope windows just become the same color as the background instead of transparency.

[last-partizan]

Hmmm, i must've changed some other option too. Yes.

let g:neovide_window_floating_blur=0

This one.

[Shatur]

let g:neovide_window_floating_blur=0

Tried this one too. The result is the same as above :(

[last-partizan]

Oh, i found one more constraint. It works only until you resize neovide window :)

[last-partizan]

Or maybe you should resize it to some magick size.

Better to wait for proper fix :)