window title appearance does not change with focus

[Rocko]

Normally, the focused window has a whiter font while windows without the focus have a slightly greyed font to indicate that they do not have the focus.

However, I find that in Precise the window titlebars are only ever drawn once when the application starts, and are assigned a white or greyed font seemingly at random. Focusing a window does not change its font or the font of the window that just lost focus.

If my currently focused window has a greyed font, maximizing it and them restoring it to non-maximized will change its titlebar font to the whiter font (ie indicating focused). But after focusing another window, the original window will retain its whiter font even though it has lost focus.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.4.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,imgpng,place,move,resize,grid,regex,gnomecompat,session,snap,animation,mousepoll,expo,workarounds,wall,fade,scale,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Sun Feb 19 13:38:25 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111129.1)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-14 (4 days ago)

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

I checked with a fresh install from alpha2 and it still has the same problem. Unity-2d works fine, it's just unity-3d that isn't repainting the titlebars to reflect window focus.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

which graphics card and driver do you use?

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

I'm using the virtualbox-guest-x11 driver from the repos.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

Here's a screenshot to illustrate the problem. The currently focused window is nautilus, which happens to have a greyed out titlebar font, while all the unfocused windows have the whiter "I have the focus" titlebar fonts.

The video driver doesn't have any problem displaying the different fonts, it looks more like unity or compiz isn't drawing them properly.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

Are you sure it's a duplicate of 781384? That bug is specific to ATI cards and the fglrx driver and occurs in Ubuntu 11.10. This bug occurs with the VirtualBox driver and only occurs in Precise.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

Unmarking as duplicate of #781384 since that bug is clearly for fglrx drivers only.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

that bug is not specific to fglrx just that its more common with fglrx. reading developers comment there its clearly known to them that its not specific to fglrx, so I guess this one is a duplicate bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 770283, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.