Notifications won't display correctly on low graphics

[ubersoldat]

Binary package hint: notify-osd

I'm running Karmic on a Thinkpad T42 that doesn't support 3D graphics. So running with 'None' Visual Effects the notification bubbles go totally black and there's no way of reading them. I'll try to catch a snapshot if I'm able to.
Thanks

[ubersoldat (alejandroayuso-gmail)]

Here's a screenshot of the notification totally black with chromium behind.

[Jon "maddog" Hall (maddog-li)]

Having the same problem on an IBM Thinkpad X31, Ubuntu 9.10 with "Human" appearance and sans fonts of fixed integer size.

When running off an Ubuntu 9.10 Live CD the X-server is set up for "Normal", and the notify-OSD bubble works fine.
Once installed to the hard disk, the X-server does not work properly when set to "Normal" (I will put in a separate bug report on that), but when visual effects is set to "None", then I get the same results for notify-OSD.

Tried different fonts, different sizes, to no avail.