very annoying glitches with compiz in gutsy
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| compiz (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: compiz
This is gutsy, updated/upgraded via apt-get just an hour ago. I have noticed several annoying glitches that I assume others have too... This is on a lenovo thinkpad x60 (intel 945 graphics).
opengl works nicely without compiz.
I have enabled "full" desktop effects - wobbling, panning workspace switching. I run many workspaces and switch between them with ctrl-f1, ctrl-f2 etc.
I usually dedicate some workspaces to running applications in full-screen (not maximized, but full-screen) mode - an xterm for irc on one workspace, a fullscreen firefox on another, etc. Normally I have a desktop shortcut (shift-ctrl-enter) to toggle fullscreen, so i use it a lot.
1. When running a window in fullscreen mode, the workspace switcher animation (in the middle of the screen) does not fade properly when switching _TO_ a currently focused fullscreen window. It disappears when it should start to fade down. REPRODUCE: Open one fullscreen (not maximized! fullscreen!) each on workspace 1 and 2. click or otherwise focus the xterm in workspace 1. Move from workspace 1 to workspace 2 and watch the animation fade nicely. do not click anything. move back to workspace 1, notice that the nice animation is gone.
2. When switching _TO_ a fullscreen window on a workspace, if a PANEL is currently in focus, the panel will not disappear and it will overlap the window which is supposed to be fullscreen. The panels do not go away from the fullscreen workspace until the fullscreen window is manually clicked/focused. REPRODUCE: fullscreen xterm on workspace 1, move ot workspace 2, click on panel, move to workspace 1 and see panel where it should not be visible.
3. flickering and strangeness in firefox while interacting with input fields, in full screen mode.
Whenever a pulldown menu is activated (i dont know the right word here) the screen flickers and the menu does not work. Sometime the entire screen is filled with garbage momentarily. Other times a large diagonal bar flickers over the entire screen. REPRODUCE: use the firefox search bar to search for a couple of words starting with "aa". Then move into the search box and type an a and possibly arrow down key. this should pop up a list of previous search terms, but instead just causes flickering and strangeness. by moving the window out of fullscreen mode (into maximized state only, for example) everything works nicely.
4. alt-tab interaction with fullscreen windows: on workspaces with one fullscreen window and several regular windows (possibly hidden behind the fullscreen window), pressing alt-tab to switch windows will show a black screen when the fullscreen window is in focus in the switcher.
5. Playing a video stream with vlc, or watching a web page with many flash movies on it, uses _a lot_ of resources. The strange thing about vlc is that when i open a video stream, fullscreen it and watch it, it works flawlessly (except for high cpu). but there are no skips. however, if i switch _away_ from the fullscreen video window, to another workspace, the system quickly gets "sluggish" and i must stop vlc and restart it to fix it. it only happens if i switch away from the fullscreen vlc.
As you can i figure all of these are fullscreen related real bugs. I would love for others to see if they can reproduce these..
These use cases are _very_ useful for me as a power user and I hope we can get them fixed asap, as it is horribly annoying right now.
Hope this was not too unstructured! Looking forward to hearing feedback.
yours
| oh (oystein-homelien) wrote | #1 |
| oh (oystein-homelien) wrote | #2 |
| Nanley Chery (nanoman) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in compiz: | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| oh (oystein-homelien) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in compiz: | |
| status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
One more fullscreen-related bug that i forgot:
6. mouse response sluggish in firefox when fullscreen. REPRODUCE: Open fullscreen (not maximized!) firefox, go to a webpage which fills a couple of screens vertically so you get a vertical scrollbar. go to a text only page so that you know that the page itself is not a resource hog. NOW: 1) use the left mouse button to click and drag the vertical toolbar. on my system there is a ~1sec lag before the window reacts to the mouse click at all. 2) click and hold on some text, wiggle your mouse to select text. notice the ~1 second lag here too. very inconvenient. switching the window out of fullscreen mode makes it react like normal, quite instantly.