title in title bars sometimes refreshes only if the window is moved/resized

[Gabriele N. Tornetta]

Binary package hint: compiz

The title of some windows sometimes is not updated instantly. They must be resized/moved in order to see the new title appearing in the title bar. Since I'm currently using compiz-decorator, I'm assuming that this problem might be related to compiz.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: compiz-core 1:0.8.6-0ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,ccp,move,resize,place,decoration,workarounds,mousepoll,commands,text,vpswitch,png,imgjpeg,resizeinfo,svg,screenshot,session,gnomecompat,regex,neg,dbus,snap,wall,animation,expo,fade,scale,ezoom,staticswitcher,scaleaddon]
Date: Mon Oct 11 21:08:39 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv1000 (EK893EA#ABZ)
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
PciDisplay: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller [8086:2592] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=UUID=374c46ac-32e3-4d0b-bdc9-49a24be632fc ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.9~git20100924-0ubuntu2
 libdrm2 2.4.21-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.12.0-1ubuntu5
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.1-1ubuntu5
SourcePackage: compiz
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
dmi.bios.date: 09/12/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.12
dmi.board.name: 308F
dmi.board.vendor: Quanta
dmi.board.version: 46.11
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.12:bd09/12/2005:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv1000(EK893EA#ABZ):pvrRev1:rvnQuanta:rn308F:rvr46.11:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv1000 (EK893EA#ABZ)
dmi.product.version: Rev 1
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = i686, kernel = 2.6.35-22-generic

[Gabriele N. Tornetta (phoenix1987)]

Also some glitches show up as well, like shadowed areas in the title bar, or colorless close/minimize/restore buttons. Everything settle to normal when the title bar is activated by means of a click on it, by hovering over the buttons with the cursor, or by moving/resizing the window.

[Juha Siltala (topyli)]

Confirming on Maverick with Intel '915GM/GMS/910GM'. Easy to see in windows with tabs. Example of a browser window: (Big video warning!): http://people.ubuntu.com/~topyli/lazy-titlebar.ogv

[Miguel Mendes Ruiz (migmruiz)]

that happens a lot with gedit's tabs and sometimes with eog

[max (maxozilla)]

I can confirm I'm also experiencing this problem.

Bug #662565 is a duplicate, I had attached a screenshot there:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/662565/+attachment/1748110/+files/Screenshot.png

Have reproduced this problem in numerous applications, including Firefox, gnome-terminal, and nautilus.

[max (maxozilla)]

ppa:xorg-edgers seems to fix this for me. If anyone else wants to try:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

So newer drivers should fix this problem.

[Omer P. (omerp)]

Thanks, max!

Following up on your comment, I tried "ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates", too (full command-line below) -- and for me that also did the trick. This PPA is a little less bleeding-edge than "xorg-edgers" (obviously), so some might prefer it.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

[Omer P. (omerp)]

Quick follow-up to comment #7 --

If you already put the "xorg-edgers" PPA in effect on your system, you should probably do a "ppa-purge" first, before installing anything else xorg-related.

Do "sudo apt-get install ppa-purge", and then "ppa-purge -h", and take it from there.

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Ok, so it seems pretty clear at this point this was a driver bug with the intel driver and i915 hardware but as natty should already have what you're getting from the x-updates PPA I'm going to mark this as fixed. Thanks to Max and Omer for willing to get a little more bleeding edge to confirm the fix.

[Danny Cook (mortchek-deactivatedaccount)]

I have this very same problem using Natty.

[Ákos Maróy (akos-maroy)]

is this really 'fix released'?

I'm having the same issue, with the ATI binary driver...