Panel applets on top panel blink in as they redrawn while running full screen app

[Corey Burger]

-Launch full screen app
-Watch panel applets blink for a second on top of screen as they are drawn. This includes the clock, system monitor, gnome-power-manager and others.

[Corey Burger (corey.burger)]

-Launch full screen app
-Watch panel applets blink for a second on top of screen as they are drawn. This
includes the clock, system monitor, gnome-power-manager and others.

confirmed with 0.3.4

Reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/73698

[Corey Burger (corey.burger)]

I see this with 0.3.4 as well. Can somebody please confirm this?

[Davidr-novell (davidr-novell)]

I can't reproduce this. Do you have the unredirect_fullscreen_windows option
turned on or not?

[Corey Burger (corey.burger)]

It is running off and the default setting for this appears to be off in Feisty.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys. Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

[Corey Burger (corey.burger)]

Still seeing this with 0.3.6. Can somebody confirm?

[VF (vfiend)]

I can't reproduce this at all with current Feisty (nvidia card with proprietary drivers)

[David McBride (david-mcbride)]

I also observe this; however, this is when running Feisty on an Intel GMA950 chipset.
This only appears to affect GL applications, such as Blender.
Dragging windows containing GL output also produces artifacts.

Cheers,
David

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is partially fixed in gutsy. We enable unredirect-fullscreen-windows and this fixes the issue if the fullscreen mode is equal size of the desktop screen resolution. A lot of games switch resolution though (e.g. ppracer) to a smaler size and this seems to make the detection for fullscreen windows fail.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The logic that detects fullscreen windows would have to be improved (src/paint.c currently) a lot to fix this issue.

[Marek Vančo (marek.vanco)]

I have the same problem with Gutsy Gibbon.
Applications with fullscreen blinking:
- screensaver of Gutsy
- Firefox (mode F11)
- Eye GNOME image viewer

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

I believe this bug is fixed in gutsy. If you can reproduce this and have unredirect fullscreen windows enable please reopen. Marek, your bug is different (and already reported).

[Bálint Magyar (balintm)]

This was happening to me in Ubuntu Gutsy, and now in Ubuntu Hardy Beta (plus updates) as well. Easily reproduced here by for example running Blender (or any OpenGL application, like games through WINE) in fullscreen and having a System Monitor panel applet. When the application is in focus, I can see the System Monitor applet blinking in whenever its state is refreshed (other applets too, of course, like Network Manager's etc.).

Video card is Intel GMA-950 (945GM chipset) with the intel driver, tried with both EXA and XAA, PageFlip and TripleBuffering on and off to no avail.

[Bálint Magyar (balintm)]

Forgot to mention that turning the "Unredirect fullscreen windows" on or off does not solve this either.

[jan2ary (jan2ary)]

This issue is annoying me in 8.10 Beta.

[Kristian Lyngstøl (kristianlyng)]

Can't reproduce. Feel free to re-open at bugs.opencompositing.org if this is still an issue.

[Yochenhsieh-gmail (yochenhsieh-gmail)]

I can reproduce this bug on the default Xandros OS of EeePC 701, intel driver. Please re-open.

[Michel Dänzer (michel-daenzer)]

It's due to bug 8732, fixed with DRI2. Unredirecting fullscreen windows avoids the problem, but isn't 100% reliable; in some of the cases where it isn't, the 'Toggle Redirect' action of the 'Extra WM Actions' works, but not always either for me. :}

[sillyxone (sillyxone)]

still have this problem in Hardy 8.04, with all updates as of today. Video: Intel GM965. Turning on/off "Unredirect fullscreen windows" doesn't solve the problem.

[Botond Szász (boteeka)]

Bug still exists in up to date Intrepid too.

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

According to the upstream bug report this is fixed now that we're using DRI2 and I cannot reproduce on intel hardware.