Windows are not drawn if they are too big

[Bill Ataras]

Binary package hint: firefox

Two days ago, I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04. I selected all of the default options when asked.
After some unpleasantness in launching applications, I saw that the applications I tried (Firefox, Thunderbird, and even the window I'm typing into now!) fail to draw properly if they are too wide or high. If I manually stretch them, the content eventually disappears entirely. If I reduce their size sufficiently, the content re-appears. There also seems to be a function of what the content happens to be. For example, when I launched Thunderbird, the basic mail window with folder list, subject list, and the contents of the selected message, were all displayed as they were with my 10.4 system. However, when I tried to reply, the window was larger and completely blanks. By accident, I saw that the contents appeared when I shrank the window, the expected contents appeared. Firefox works the same way. It seems that, when the width gets to be wide enough that the horizontal scrollbar vanished or is about to, the content disappears. As I'm typing this, I see that the contents of this window disappears as soon as the scrollbar becomes as wide as this text box.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: firefox 4.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 8 20:37:14 2011
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 4.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.3
 flashplugin-installer 10.3.181.22ubuntu0.11.04.1
 adobe-flashplugin N/A
 icedtea-plugin 1.1~20110420-0ubuntu1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-08 (0 days ago)

[Shimi Chen (shimi-chen)]

Is this exclusive to Mozilla applications(Firefox&Thunderbird)?

[Bill Ataras (signalman)]

No. I had the same problem running a VMWARE virtual XP machine under my
Linux host OS. I didn't try this with open office, and that's the other
major suite that I use.

I have since found that the "classic ubuntu" choice still operates as it
did - perfectly - under 11.04.

Thanks for checking in to this.

Bill

On 06/09/2011 04:06 AM, Shimi Chen wrote:
> Is this exclusive to Mozilla applications(Firefox&Thunderbird)?
>

[Shimi Chen (shimi-chen)]

When you checked the classic session, did you try with or without effects(compiz/metacity)?

If you tried the "No Effects" session can you try it with effects(normal Classic session) and report back?

[Bill Ataras (signalman)]

I used the normal classic session. And now, even though I'm still using
the normal classic session, I'm having the same problem with this
Thunderbird "reply" window. This didn't happen yesterday, and I haven't
done a reboot since I last used Thunderbird.

On 06/10/2011 06:34 PM, Shimi Chen wrote:
> When you checked the classic session, did you try with or without
> effects(compiz/metacity)?
>
> If you tried the "No Effects" session can you try it with effects(normal
> Classic session) and report back?
>