[Bug 320651] Re: Title bar becomes blank with visual effects turnedon.

[Jim (JR) Harris]

That system is currently off line while I am desperately working on a hard
drive recovery crisis.

Can I get this to you a bit later? (say < 1 week?)

Thanks!

Jim "JR" Harris 
Senior QA Analyst, Systems QA 
508-595-9382 (Desk)
508-864-8404 (Cell) 
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-----Original Message-----
From: bounces at canonical.com [mailto:bounces at canonical.com] On Behalf Of
Pedro Villavicencio
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 1:22 PM
To: jimrh at charter.net
Subject: [Bug 320651] Re: Title bar becomes blank with visual effects
turnedon.

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better.  Could you please add your ~/.xsession-errors,
/var/log/Xorg.0.log and the output of lspci -vvnn to your bug report as
separate attachments?  Thanks in advance.

** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title bar becomes blank with visual effects turned on.
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Status in "compiz" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: gnome

(Update - 1/23/09 by Jim (JR))
Completely re-writing description based on new information

Issue:
If visual effects are turned on - mousing-over the title bar controls (upper
right hand corner), causes title bar to reverse color, the controls are
either poorly drawn or visually missing, and even the title-bar outlines can
disappear.

Note to Developers:

1.  I strongly suspect that this has to do with the Nvidea proprietary
driver I installed on this laptop - as turning visual effects (eye candy)
entirely off eliminates the problem.
2.  My suspicion gains confirmation because other machine installs I have
done did not exhibit this behavior - but no proprietary drivers were
installed.
(Though it is only fair to say that these installs also defaulted to visual
effects - off.)

Machine:
HP (Comapq) Presario F500 laptop with integrated wifi (broadcom), video
(nvidia), and NIC (don't remember)
Processor is an AMD64 (Athlon X2 - 2+ gHz.)
2 Gig RAM
Huge HD partitioned into five parts with four OS's and a small swap space.
(two windows, two Ubuntu)
Proprietary Broadcom and Nvidia drivers installed. (latest)

Steps to reproduce:
Install and launch either 32 or 64 bit versions of Ubuntu on a machine with
an NVIDIA graphics adapter, using the proprietary Nvidia driver.
Verify that visual effects are turned off.

Open "System --> Preferences --> Appearance"
Select the "visual effects" tab.
Verify visual effects are set to "off"
Mouse over the window controls in the upper right corner at the end of the
title bar, and move the mouse around over these controls.

Then, change the visual effects from "off" to "normal".
Repeat the mouse-over as described before.

Expected Results:
Mousing over the controls should have no effect except that the control
buttons might change color slightly to indicate the "presence" of the
mouse's sphere of influence.

Actual Results:
When doing this with visual effects turned off, the results are as expected.
When doing this with visual effects turned ON - the title bar periodically
"reverses" itself and partially vanishes when you mouse over the controls in
the upper right hand corner.

Additional note:
Due to other instances of the window title-bar flipping behavior - I suspect
that this would occur if the mouse were to glide over ANY "active"
(sensitive to the mouse's presence) control or link or whatever within the
window - as I have seen this behavior happen without massaging the window
close controls.

p.s.  Sorry for the "re-do"  but I discovered this simple and direct way to
provoke this action and decided to re-write the bug to conform.  Sorry for
any confusion caused thereto.


ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386 (and amd64)
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu1 (I suspect a "gnome" library or window
control is at fault here, if not the video driver!)
ProcEnviron:
 
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686  (This also occurs with 2.6.27-7-generic,
both 32 & 64 bit)

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