window buttons (maximize minimize close) mouseover effect fails

[arpl]

to reproduce bug just open a gnome-terminal and mouse over the close minimize maximize buttons. They seem to do the opposite of what they should do. If you select the window(click on title bar) the problem seems to go away. In conclusion when you start up the application(e.g gnome-terminal) mouseover effect behaves strange. Sorry if this is stupid. Thanks anyway!

Theme name is Ambiance(default), on Maverick.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
This problem is present only with gnome-yerminal ?
I cannot reproduce it
When my mouse pass on the button the title automatically appear.
Fabio

[arpl (aris-plakias-gmail)]

If look at the screenshot the minimize button on the gnome-terminal is lighten and
the cursor is not there so if i do a mouseover now it does the opposite it darkens
it. So it must be a problem with the state of the button. One more thing when i close
compiz the problem is fixed. And yes this happens with more than just gnome-terminal.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
Probably is something related to your compiz, i cannot reproduce it in any way.
Can you try removing completely compiz and reinstall it to see if fixes.
Thanks
Fabio

[arpl (aris-plakias-gmail)]

I purged it and installed it and the problem is still there. Anyway if nobody says anything
it's probably me so don't waste time on this.

[Todd Morgan (tubatodd)]

I'm experiencing the same thing with my window buttons as well. For me it happens in all applications. If I quite compiz, the problem goes away. Once I launch compiz again, the problem returns.

[Ivan (trurl-master)]

Same thing in maverick. On all windows.

[Todd Morgan (tubatodd)]

I've installed Maverick on 2 other laptops with different graphics cards (1 ATI and 1 Intel) than mine and have not experienced this issue. Here is a part of my hardware profile
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    configuration: boot=oem-specific chassis=notebook cpus=1 uuid=7448B7A5-0795-11DB-AB63-0016D424FAF2
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: HAQAA
       vendor: TOSHIBA
       physical id: 0
       version: Null
       serial: 0123456789AB
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: TOSHIBA
          physical id: 0
          version: V2.90 (09/13/2007)
          size: 105KiB
          capacity: 448KiB
          capabilities: pci pcmcia pnp upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect int13floppytoshiba int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb agp smartbattery biosbootspecification
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T1350 @ 1.86GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 4
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: 6.14.8
          serial: 0000-06E8-0000-0000-0000-0000
          slot: U2E1
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          capacity: 2048MHz
          width: 32 bits
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...
     *-pci
          description: Host bridge
          product: Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 03
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          configuration: driver=agpgart-intel
          resources: irq:0
        *-display:0
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 03
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
             configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
             resources: irq:16 memory:d0200000-d027ffff ioport:1800(size=8) memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0300000-d033ffff
        *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
             description: Display controller
             product: Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
             version: 03
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:d0280000-d02fffff

[Todd Morgan (tubatodd)]

I've found that if I install Compiz Manager, select Window Decorations and change...

/usr/bin/compiz-dectorator

to

/usr/bin/gtk-window-decorator

that it works.

[linuxar (linuxar)]

Hello,

 I encounter the following problem under Ubuntu Natty with the "ThinMC" window border theme (see http://art.gnome.org/themes/metacity?page=4), does not highlight minimize, maximize and close buttons on mouse over. This happens if windows are not maximized. When maximized, the buttons are highlighted on mouseover. This behavior arises at least for the Terminal and Nautilus windows, but for others as well.

 As far as I remember, the same happened for other themes, too.

 Other windows (such Eclipse Indiogo M6a) do not presente this wrong behavior and correctly highlight the respective buttons.

 If is helpful:
 - some time ago, my Natty presented also the following behavior (this was corrected meanwhile): when maximized, neither Opera nor Firefox windows did not change the Window title when commuting between open browsing tabs; however, they changed the window title when windows were no longer maximized;
 - the following behavior occured at least once: when hovering mouse over a maximized Nautilus window button "maximize", then fastly double-clicking the window to un-maximize, the "maximize" button remained highlighted, even if now the window is no longer maximized; the respective minimize, maximize and close buttons are no longer responsive to mouse hovering (consistent with the behavior explained above about the un-maximized state of the window); see the attached screenshot.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello axeoth
I'm not expert in this things, but i think that a theme created for metacity has to run in metacity, so can you please test it running a metacity session, selecting at login screen, gnome classical (without effects) .
Thanks
Fabio

[linuxar (linuxar)]

@Fabio Marconi
Thank you. Obviously, you are right. It was a metacity theme and it works well on Ubuntu Classic No Effects. From this point of view, ignore my previous comment.
OTOH, the behavior still remains a bit strange, but I admit this is not a top priority.
Thanks again.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Since Natty is no longer supported, please do test on Ubuntu 12.04+ to see if the issue remains.

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