New Fedora 42: glowing sidebar

Hi people!

Can anybody tell me why is my sidebar glowing?

After updating to Fedora 42, this has been the case.

Also
When I am using LibreOffice this happens and it stays after terminating an app.

Screenshot From 2025-05-05 15-26-08

Is it because the bar is “floating”?
There is a task bar (is that the right name) setting you can change to turn off “floating”.

Everything glows,
see here
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What’s strange is this here:

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Oh I assumed you where using KDE plasma. You are using Gnome?
You need a gnome user to respond.

I’m a GNOME user, but I am not sure what do you mean with glowing. The posted screenshots look ok[1]. So maybe the monitor output is the issue, and not the way image is being rendered on your system.


  1. You can check your outputs on another machine. ↩︎

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Disable all GNOME Extensions you may be using.
Note: I also fail to see the “glow” problem.

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Before updating, I haven’t had this issue.
The same issue appears on a different monitor.
It’s a slight brightest but I am noticing it and it bothers me.
Disabling GNOME extensions is next on my agenda.

Disable all GNOME Extensions, didn’t do anything.
I will adjust the slight brightness, but I don’t know why there are multiple LibreOffice instances present on the bottom bar?

This might be a power profile related issue. Does it change anything if you switch the Power Mode from Power Saver (as seen in the initial screenshot) to Balanced? If it does, then does it reproduce when switching back to Power Saver?

The other issue with multiple LibreOffice instances in the window list shouldn’t be related to the glowing issue, and should be dealt separately, preferably in another thread.

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It was a power profile related issue. Switching profiles resolved it.

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