window border flaps or oscillates by itself

[Phil Colbourn]

Hard to explain: It happens when the following is true:

* a non-maximized window title bar is touching the top panel
* when dragging a window left and right
* window extends across two workspaces (

The title bar seems to bend upwards underneath the panel. When dragging has finished (mouse button is released) the windows does one of two things:

1. it 'dances' with the right side (or the left side depending on whether the window is on the left or right side of the screen) of the window jumping up and down continuously. The content is constantly adjusting the the new window size (kind-of a nice effect but difficult to use)
2. the window dances a few times then the whole window slides down the screen an inch and stops.

I have a video that I can send to someone.
I am running gutsy and only noticed it today (October 22, 2007) after an upgrade (but this may be a red-herring).

[LeeV (leev)]

This is also happening on my desktop (Nvidia graphics) and laptop (Intel 915 graphics).
It's when the Compiz Desktop Effects are turned and is specifically related to the Wobbly Windows feature.

Install compiz-settings-manager and turn off wobbly and the defect disappears.

Alternately, in the wobbly settings, pushing the top two sliders (Friction and Spring IIRC) to the far right, and the two below those nearer to the left side (but not all the way) really minimizes the effect.

Ideally, I'd like to be able turn off the 'stickyness' of the wobbly altogther, as it bugs me, but I see no option for this.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Hew (hew)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!