Fully transparent panel reveals a black app or global menu

[Doug McMahon]

Then the app /global menu fades away a black on is let in it's place. Screen shows the Desktop appmenu in black when focus was returned to Desktop.
Happens with all apps that have the global, their menu remain in black

[James Grace (jamesgrace)]

thanks for the screenshot, I will investigate and post back with my findings asap.

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Just to note though not that helpful -
if you set the opacity to 0.0100 then it works fine though obviously the shadow will still be drawn if the png plugin is enabled

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

On 02/10/2012 03:21 PM, Doug McMahon wrote:
> Just to note though not that helpful -
> if you set the opacity to 0.0100 then it works fine though obviously the shadow will still be drawn if the png plugin is enabled
>
Well after disabling then re-enabling png it's doing a good job of
matching shadow opacity to panel opacity so @ 0.0100 iit's the same as
0.0000 on this screen

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

This has gone from bad to worse, now any transparency can cause a new issue.
With the default 2x2 layout move a window from either of the 2 top viewports into a lower viewport.
Switch viewports, any part of the panel that had the window over now will permanently show that window, even if the window is moved or closed

Attached vid show extreme example, can happen in a more subtle manner

This can't happen in a 1x4 layout

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Note that the above concerning window shown in the panel does not happen with synaptic package manager, it's handled correctly

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

The latest compiz 9.7.0~bzr2995-0ubuntu4) which reverted fix_925293.patch: has fixed the window in panel problem

[James Grace (jamesgrace)]

can you upload a screen-cap of the compiz fix

we can then close this bug

[CatchesAStar (catchesastar)]

This bug is once again a problem in 0.9.7.2-0ubuntu4.

[Glen Shrubsall (stinkeye)]

Happens here as well.
The global menu is drawn black when using a 100% transparent
panel.
compiz version: 1:0.9.7.2-0ubuntu4

[CatchesAStar (catchesastar)]

For those having this nasty issue, try enabling the JPEG plugin, and using 0.01 for opacity.

[CatchesAStar (catchesastar)]

compiz 1:0.9.7.6-0ubuntu1 has made it a bit more usable - the black underlay text now disappears after a few seconds.

[CatchesAStar (catchesastar)]

*correction
That should be a few milliseconds. You can still see the black underlay text though.

[Per-Inge (per-inge-hallin)]

I upgraded an installation with a transparent panel from 11.10 to 12.04 yesterday and I had to change transparency to 99% to make it usable/look better.

[jsevi83 (jsevi83)]

Just updated my 12.04 installation and the bug is still there. Check the attachment.

[Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton)]

Bug confirmed here in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Unity 5.12. Perhaps the bug title should be edited to be more version-neutral?

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Feel free to edit to whatever you wish, the bug is 4+ months old & likely will age further.
Opacity settings in the unity panel is in sadder shape then just this bug...

[Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton)]

Well, if you say so...

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

You may also be interested in this panel bug
Bug 963505

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

This is fixed in 12.10 dev, currently 6.0.0-0ubuntu4 though may have happened with an earlier 6.0 release

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Yes it is fixed for me as well. Though i don't think its such an important bug to be considered for SRU + we(actually I) are not sure what fixed it.

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

May be coming back - see the behavior in the current unity staging ppa build (6.2.0+bzr2616ubuntu0+762)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Doug, this regression is being tracked in bug 1044021 now.

[Péter Trombitás (trombipeti)]

It did came back, the difference is that if I click on the desktop the black stuff disappears.