funny colours in windows

[Andrew Conkling]

On 4/19/06, Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
> before I go through the hassle of working out the circumstances in which
> it happens and making a bug against something, I want to check...
>
> It is a known general bug at the moment that some buttons and progress
> bars in various applications (nautilus and gramps come to mind) have
> strange coloured tints to them sometimes, until the mouse hovers over
> them? I've observed lime green (nautilus) pink (evolution?) and peach
> (gramps).

Do you have an X compositor on?

(And why isn't this on ubuntu-users?)