Jaunty: desktop image comes to front on fullscreen videos

[Bakon Jarser]

When watching videos in totem or smplayer whenever the controls are displayed the desktop image appears for a half second. There is also a slight flicker when the controls disappear but it is too fast to tell wether it is the desktop image or not. This also happens when exiting fullscreen flash. With compiz effects turned off this doesn't happen.

Jaunty beta
nvidia geforce 6150se / 180.37

[Oli (oli)]

Same behaviour. Again, with nvidia (closed-source driver) and compiz.

[Jim Louvau (jlouvau)]

Here too on a TwinView setup. No change upgrading to the 185 beta drivers (nVidia).

[Jim Louvau (jlouvau)]

I tried a suggestion from the forums that fixed it (and seems to be fixing it for everyone else):

"Please go to CCSM, general options and uncheck "unredirect fullscreen windows". Then see if it still happens."

Worked like a charm. Now the question is, what does disabling that screw up? :-)

[Lee Boynton (lboynton)]

Above fix works for me. It should be noted that it's not just videos, but any full screen application, including Firefox. If you press ctrl+s to bring up the save dialog the background flickers. Also alt+tabbing when there is a full screen application results in lots of flickering.

[Lee Boynton (lboynton)]

This also seems to be a duplicate of an old bug