"disapearing" error windows

[Loïc Grenié]

2010/12/13 stan <stanb at panix.com>:
> 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.

    You'll have to find the compiz setting for transient (or alert) windows.
  They probably have reduced visibility. Sorry I cannot be more precise
  because I do not (and can not) use compiz.

      Hope this helps,

         Loïc