Ubuntu
notify-osd package

notification popups/baloons get blurred instead of transparent on rollover

Bug #905927 reported by Teo on 2011-12-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #853784: Opacity of notify-osd bubbles doesn't decrease correctly on hover in metacity. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	notify-osd (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

You know those baloons which appear on the upper-right corner of the screen when you are notified of something (e.g. network manager generates one of these when connection is established or lost; thunderbird generate one when you receive emails, etc).

When you move the cursor over such a popup, it should _disappear_ or become more _transparent_, so that you can see and interact with what's behind it. This is what used to happen with gnome (but when I used gnome I had compiz effects disabled).

Instead, when you move the cursor over it, it becomes just _blurred_, as if being blurred would help you see through it, which it obviously doesn't. It doesn't become even the slightest bit more transparent, just blurred.

Before I upgraded from 10.10, the popup used to disappear completely when I rolled over it, which was the most reasonable thing. However, I had compiz effects disabled, so I don't know if the blur-instead-of-transparency is a new wrong behaviour introduced in unity or if it has always been the (wrong) way it behaves with the effects turned on.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.24.0-0ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.24-generic 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0'
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 280.13 Wed Jul 27 16:55:43 PDT 2011
GCC version: gcc version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3)
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,vpswitch,mousepoll,compiztoolbox,snap,place,resize,session,regex,grid,wall,move,gnomecompat,imgpng,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Sun Dec 18 13:27:23 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-12-07 19:34:40.350850
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 9500M GS] [10de:0405] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:15d2]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
JockeyStatus:
xorg:nvidia_173 - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
xorg:nvidia_173_updates - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release updates) (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
pkg:sl-modem-daemon - Software modem (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
xorg:nvidia_current_updates - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release updates) (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. M51Sn
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-15-generic root=UUID=173acbf5-26a0-49e3-8d2b-f1c142582cbf ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-07 (10 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 12/24/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 303
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: M51Sn
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr303:bd12/24/2007:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnM51Sn:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnM51Sn:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: M51Sn
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu6
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

Tags:

Revision history for this message

Teo (teo1978) wrote on 2011-12-18:

.proc.driver.nvidia.params.txt Edit (455 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootDmesg.txt Edit (59.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootLog.gz Edit (822 bytes, application/x-gzip)
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (123.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DkmsStatus.txt Edit (524 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgLog.txt Edit (3.4 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (37.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog.txt Edit (13.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog1.txt Edit (24.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog2.txt Edit (17.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmLog.txt Edit (5.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (17.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (940 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (128.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (271.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UnitySupportTest.txt Edit (589 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgConf.txt Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (40.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (22.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (13.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
dmidecode.txt.txt Edit (10.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
locale.txt Edit (327 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
nvidia-settings.txt Edit (207.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
peripherals.txt Edit (923 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (233 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (22.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xinput.txt Edit (913 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (57.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) on 2011-12-19

affects:

unity (Ubuntu) → notify-osd (Ubuntu)

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2013-11-20:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Report a bug

This report contains Public information

Everyone can see this information.

Duplicate of bug #853784 Remove

You are

Subscribing...

Edit bug mail

Other bug subscribers

Bug attachments

Add attachment

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.

Ubuntunotify-osd package