Evolution title bar toggle on/off

[Tom Collier]

Binary package hint: evolution

Right clicking in Evolution calendar toggles the title bar on and off. Occurs whether I use MS wireless mouse or the EEEPC 1000's touchpad. Click-on target moves the height of the title bar, so the mouse click doesn't register, or registers on the wrong target. Problem occurs after ANY initial click on Calendar in Evolution, then persists regardless of where or which app I go to in Evolution. Cures itself if I close, then reopen Evolution and does not recur until I again go to Calendar and attempt to right-click anyplace on the Calendar screen.

I am a complete Ubuntu noob trying to escape Redmond's clutches, and am evaluating/testing Ubuntu 9.04 on an EeePC 1000 netbook, under the Wubi dual boot installation in Windows XP Home SP 3. Sorry, I know nada about Linux terminal commands.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
Package: evolution 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
 * Could you take a screenshot showing the issue?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Tom Collier (tom-collier)]

[segmented reply below] (Thank YOU for responding....)

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
>
> * Is this reproducible?
>
I don't know whether it is or not. It occurs on my eeePC 1000 netbook
running Ubuntu 9.04 under a Wubi installation under Windows XP. I have
not installed Ubuntu on any other computers. Frankly, I am almost a
convert and this quirk in Evolution is so minor that I don't think it
will affect my evaluation or decision to move to Ubuntu Linux.
> * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
>
Again, don't know.
> * Could you take a screenshot showing the issue?
>
Shots 1 & 2 attached. Left or right click anywhere on the Calendar
screen and the window title bar toggles on and off. This shifts the
mouse target apx 10 or 20 pixels up or down and the mouse click misses
its target. The click either has no effect, or initiates the action 10
or 20 pixels above or below the desired action. This behavior does not
occur prior to clicking on the Calendar button, but continues regardless
of the mouse target after the Calendar has been invoked. It can only be
stopped by closing the window with keyboard CTRL-Q command. I can then
reopen Evolution and everything behaves properly UNTIL I click on the
Calendar button. Then it starts all over again.

It's like that old windows programmers' joke where you're supposed to
click for a million dollars or something, and the "click here" button
disappears then jumps and reappears on another part of the screen on
mouse_over. Or like Groundhog Day.

Anyway, thanks for your assistance. I am IN AWE of the fact that
someone responded!
>
> This will help us to find and resolve the problem.
>
> ** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
>
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is your issue specific to this software? it seems to be a window manager bug rather than an evolution one

[Tom Collier (tom-collier)]

On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 09:37 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:

> is your issue specific to this software? it seems to be a window manager
> bug rather than an evolution one
>

yes. It only occurs in the Calendar window of Evolution. It has never
happened any place else in the test copy of Ubuntu 90.4 that I have
loaded.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

can you move the dialog using alt + dnd, does it has the decoration?

[Tom Collier (tom-collier)]

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> can you move the dialog using alt + dnd, does it has the decoration?
>
>
ALT + DND (assuming that means "drag and drop") has no effect. Same action.

[Tom Collier (tom-collier)]

Setting System>Appearance>visual effects to "none" solved the problem.
Sorry to report it as a bug...but thanks for your efforts.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the recent comment indicates that's a compiz issue

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/. Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

I cannot reproduce this problem using karmic.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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!.