XVideo fullscreen flickers when notify-osd notification spawns

[Julian Lam]

Binary package hint: vlc

When watching a video in fullscreen (with XVideo output), the screen flickers for a fraction of a second and displays the desktop background whenever a notification (using Jaunty's new notify-osd) is spawned. This interrupts the user experience, and should be fixed, if at all possible.

vlc:
  Installed: 0.9.9a-2ubuntu2~ppajaunty1
  Candidate: 0.9.9a-2ubuntu2~ppajaunty1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.9a-2ubuntu2~ppajaunty1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.9.9a-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca jaunty/multiverse Packages

I am currently using the medigeek PPA to integrate the non-fullscreen output to the VLC window, although I don't think this changes things, as the bug should be reproducible in the vanilla install of VLC on Jaunty.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: vlc 0.9.9a-2ubuntu2~ppajaunty1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

Thanks for your bug report.

I am marking your bug as invalid as an ongoing work is happening to avoid notifications to appear when using fullscreen applications.

You can track the ongoing work in bug 372789

[Julian Alarcon (julian-alarcon)]

Sorry, but this is related to other bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/153204

The bug of notifications in Fullscreen is real, but this bug is about flickering on screen.