Overlay scrollbar dissapears as soon as you try to click it

[Britt Yazel]

The overlay scrollbar will work properly the first time you try to use it, but if you try to hover over the scrollbar any time after that first initial time, the scrollbar will dissapear as soon as you try to click on it. I have tried it in many different applications that use the overlay scrollbar, and they all perform this same way.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: overlay-scrollbar 0.2.15-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 14 20:35:07 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: overlay-scrollbar
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-10 (4 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Frederik Elwert (frederik-elwert)]

I am experiencing the very same issue. I am a bit surprised that this bug does not receive more attention, so it might be triggered only in certain environments.

Maybe it’s a graphics issue? Which graphics card and driver are you using?

These are my card and driver:

$ lspci | grep VGA
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series]

$ glxinfo | grep renderer
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS880

$ grep drivers /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 28.086] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so
[ 28.178] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
[ 28.231] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[ 28.276] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[ 28.286] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so
[ 28.286] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[ 28.286] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[ 28.290] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so

[Britt Yazel (bwyazel)]

I am running the opensourced rs880 Radeon graphics driver on an HD 4200 series. Also, the computer I run at work has an nividia 8600 graphics card with proprietary drivers that does not seem to have the problem.

The HD 4200 series seems to have a lot of issues with this release of Ubuntu, which is a shame because it is a very popular card.

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Confirm nearly impossible to catch scrollbars (video). Possible dupe bug 956062

~$ lspci -nnk | grep -i VGA -A2
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series] [1002:9712]
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1475]
 Kernel driver in use: radeon

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

4200 series was fine with Oneiric certified systems, LTS shouldn't break the consense.
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/catalog/component/pci:9712:1002-VIDEO

Workaround, disable overlay-scrollbar in dconf since it's useless in this state.

[Britt Yazel (bwyazel)]

Seems like this issue is localized to people with the 4200 series. This isn't the only issue that I've had localized to this card as well.

[Maciej Bęcławski (hakkatuka)]

I don't think it only affects radeon users as I have an integrated Intel and it happens to me too.

$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)