Screen Fade - frequent lose of window control

[Nathan Bahn]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:28 PM, ANDY <sirald66 at gmail.com> wrote:

> DELL LATITUDE D600
> UBUNTU 9.10 +proposed
> GNOME 2.28.1
> COMPIZ 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu2.1
> FIREFOX 3.6.17
>
>
> Since I've used Ubuntu (8.x), I've had the sometimes frequent problem of
> Firefox fading the window to a transparent-gray as it goes off into space
> for awhile, then returns.  I thought it was a resource problem (1.5/Ghz
> single core, 768/MB) and it may well be, but system monitor graphs don't
> usually show a cpu or memory spike.
>
> As I look to diagnose this, I need ideas on where to start.  Hardware,
> linux, Ubuntu, window manager and/or Firefox related?  And I need a more
> accurate description than 'screen fade' if I'm searching down a bug/issue.
>
>
> ANDY - Salt Lake, UT US
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A.--

This may be a stupid/unwarranted question; but, regardless, here it is.....
I'm assuming that you're using the program "System Monitor"; if so, then how
frequently is it updating its numbers?

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