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compiz package

Menu rendering leaves lingering shadow outlines

Bug #961518 reported by Constantine on 2012-03-21

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Compiz	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned	Compiz 0.9.11.0
	compiz (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The appmenu and indicator menus leave fading outlines behind if you scrub quickly between them.

This can be hard to spot on faster machines but on medium to slow machines this is quite evident.

See https://launchpadlibrarian.net/97921210/lkj.png for an example of this.

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Constantine (fe-pavel) wrote on 2012-03-21:

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Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote on 2012-03-21:

The global menu is very fast for me. Probably your driver is to blame here?

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Simon Strandman (nejsimon) wrote on 2012-03-23:

I reported bug #962494 but this is obviously the same problem so I'm adding my info here (my bug should be closed as a duplicate):

On my AMD E350/radeon HD 6130 laptop there is a slight but annoying delay every time I open a menu in the global menu bar. If I cycle trought the menus the lag becomes very noticable. First a rectangular shadow apperas and then the actual menu. CPU usage is also quite high when cycling the menus, with compiz, xorg and unity-panel-service together using almost 100%.

I tried upgrading the fglrx driver from AMD but it didn't help. Using the open radeon driver didn't help either. My Atom based netbook with a Intel GMA3150 has the same problem so I don't think it's a driver problem (it's even slower on that computer). The global menu does work on my desktop computer but then it' a core i7 with a powerful nvidia GPU. :)

I never had this problem with gnome 2 btw.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-03-23:

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

Changed in fglrx-installer (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Simon Strandman (nejsimon) wrote on 2012-03-23:

Screenshot when cycling the menus:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/97921210/lkj.png

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2012-03-23:

As per comment #3, no evidence so far supporting this as a bug in fglrx.

If a slow path can be identified in actual driver code, feel free to reassign to fglrx.

Changed in fglrx-installer (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Invalid

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2012-03-25:

it was supposed to be fixed as bug 931473 did you restart unity after installing all the updates?

no longer affects:	fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → New
status:	New → Incomplete

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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote on 2012-03-26:

I can confirm the screenshot from Simon's comment #6. It's a bit hard to spot on my fast SandyBridge laptop, but on my netbook it is very evident that the menu rendering is lagging behind. Both the appmenu and the indicators'.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Confirmed

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) on 2012-03-26

summary:	- Global menu is rendered too slow + Menu rendering leaves lingering outlines
Changed in unity:
status:	New → Confirmed
description:	updated

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2012-03-26: Re: Menu rendering leaves lingering outlines

#10

I believe this is a duplicate of an old bug. But can't find it right now...

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2012-07-04:

#11

thanks for your bug report. Is that still an issue in fully updated Ubuntu 12.04?

Changed in unity:
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in compiz:
status:	New → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2012-07-05:

#12

Confirmed on a slow netbook running 12.10, with compiz 1:0.9.8+bzr3249-0ubuntu2

Changed in compiz:
status:	Incomplete → Confirmed
summary:	- Menu rendering leaves lingering outlines + Menu rendering leaves lingering shadow outlines
Changed in compiz:
milestone:	none → 0.9.8.0
affects:	unity (Ubuntu) → compiz (Ubuntu)
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Confirmed
no longer affects:	unity

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Simon Strandman (nejsimon) wrote on 2012-08-13:

#13

Perhaps it's related to this gtk+ bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640995

Especially the second video shows a issue very similar to this.

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2012-08-23

Changed in compiz:
milestone:	0.9.8.0 → 0.9.8.1

Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz) on 2012-09-10

Changed in compiz:
milestone:	0.9.8.2 → 0.9.8.4

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2012-09-28

Changed in compiz:
milestone:	0.9.8.4 → 0.9.9.0

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2013-01-23

Changed in compiz:
milestone:	0.9.9.0 → 0.9.9.2

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2013-04-03

Changed in compiz:
milestone:	0.9.9.2 → 0.9.10.0

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MC Return (mc-return) wrote on 2013-06-23:

#14

@all affected:
Is anyone able to reproduce this with Compiz 0.9.10-dev ?

Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz) on 2013-07-22

Changed in compiz:
milestone:	0.9.10.0 → 0.9.10.2

MC Return (mc-return) on 2013-07-24

Changed in compiz:
milestone:	0.9.10.2 → 0.9.11.0

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fcole90 (fcole90) wrote on 2015-10-03:

#15

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. We have tried to recreate this on the latest release of Ubuntu and cannot reproduce it. This bug is being marked as Invalid. If you believe the problem to still exist in the latest version of Ubuntu please comment on why that is the case and change the bug status to NEW.