"disapearing" error windows

[stan]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 04:37:38PM +0100, Lo?c Greni? wrote:
> 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 ?
> 

Yes, and I thiink this started after I enabled that.

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