"disapearing" error windows

[Loïc Grenié]

2010/12/13 stan <stanb at panix.com>:
>
> For quite some time now my Ubuntu worksations has been exhibiting an extremly
> anoyig behavior. When a error dialog widow pos up, it is either invislble,
> or so light that I cannot se it, untill the mouse happens to cross it, at
> which time it appears at full brightness.
>
> Up untill now, I have ust been living with this. But, this morning a RDP
> session timed out whule I was away from the machine. This made teh
> keyboard, and mouse clicks appear o be non fucntionsl. I came really close
> to rebooting the machine to solve this problem, before teh mouse acidently
> moved over the error dialog.
>
> How can I defeat this behavior?

    I'ts probably a setting of the window manager. Do you use compiz ?

       Loïc