gnome-system-monitor shows blur window in Karmic.

Bug #474134 reported by Guille
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Nominated for Karmic by wan
Nominated for Lucid by WubiNeophyte

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor

Xubuntu Karmic in an IBM Thinkpad X24. Error occurs in test mode from CD and also after installation.
gnome-system-monitor shows a blur window. You can move or close it by clicking the top-right corner of the window. Also some other information windows appear and dissapear but showing only a blur. Not sure if these info windows have to do with system monitor or other kind of info.
Same laptop worked fine in Jaunty.
Find attached screenshot of running gnome-system-monitor window.

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Guille (guille-querol) wrote :
affects: gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu) → ubuntu
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Guille (guille-querol) wrote :

specify package: gnome-system-monitor

affects: ubuntu → gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu)
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

not a bug in the software there

affects: gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu) → ubuntu
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Guille (guille-querol) wrote : Re: [Bug 474134] Re: gnome-system-monitor shows blur window in Xubuntu Karmic.

Sorry, I thougth the name of the package was missing by mistake.
If it's not a bug, what is it? what should I do about it? thanks

2009/11/11 Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>

> not a bug in the software there
>
> ** Package changed: gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu) => ubuntu
>
> --
> gnome-system-monitor shows blur window in Xubuntu Karmic.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474134
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> Status in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor
>
> Xubuntu Karmic in an IBM Thinkpad X24. Error occurs in test mode from CD
> and also after installation.
> gnome-system-monitor shows a blur window. You can move or close it by
> clicking the top-right corner of the window. Also some other information
> windows appear and dissapear but showing only a blur. Not sure if these info
> windows have to do with system monitor or other kind of info.
> Same laptop worked fine in Jaunty.
> Find attached screenshot of running gnome-system-monitor window.
>

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zainka (gotamail) wrote : Re: gnome-system-monitor shows blur window in Xubuntu Karmic.

Hi
I have the same issue and was aboute to write a bug report myself because truly there must be some incompatibility between old Jaunty and 9.10 Karmic. I have a thread in ubuntu forum here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8333353&posted=1#post8333353

I was able to do a workaround which ONLY PARTLY fixed my problem (by installing xfce4-notiyfd) at least making me see the notification popups when network connected or disconnected, but gnome-system-monitor and other program popus are still unreadable. For xample you could try installing the eagle package from cadsoft as I reffere to in my thread.

I beleive xfce4-notifyd only replaces the normal daemon that should have been working from before.

Theam (Sebastian or other), Would it help if we created a ubuntu-bug report on a more generic "package" for example linux or other? We can provide if needed.

My machineware is an Compac Evo N800c and everything was fine when running Jaunty.

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Kris (dakaujunk) wrote :

Having the same issue here with Xubuntu 9.10 on a Thinkpad T42 with graphics card ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]. I don't believe the issue is caused by the graphics card. This issue affects gnome-system-monitor and the notifications displayed by notify-osd. Had to replace notify-osd with xfce4-notifyd to view the notifications.

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Affenpeter (dorfmensch) wrote :

Have the issue as well. Not only system monitor, but notifications, too. Xfce only, in Gnome everything works fine. I use a Thinkpad T40 with ATI Radeon Mobility 7500.

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Ian Johnston (ian-orbister) wrote :

I've got precisely the same issue. Thinkpad R40e, lspci => "01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M"

I'm little puzzled about the claim that this isn't a bug. I'm pretty sure the system monitor isn't supposed to look like that.

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Affenpeter (dorfmensch) wrote :

An additional thing I noticed:

If I activate compositing and overlay in full screen windows in the window behaviour options (/home/xyz/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml, property name="unredirect_overlays") my ENTIRE SCREEN starts showing the same blurriness. I had to manually edit the xml back from Gnome because xfce had become unusable.

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WubiNeophyte (wubibugs) wrote :

Am having the same problem.

First on upgrade from Jaunty, then on fresh install of Karmic. From the command line, I'm getting a warning about SELinux when I start gnome-system-monitor. Tried fixing that in the Jaunty upgrade by installing SELinux, but I think that conflicts with AppArmour, and I eventually managed to hose myself, forcing the fresh install of Karmic.

I'm seeing a similar problem in the Notify OSD applet, and I was seeing this under my initial (Gnome) installation of Ubuntu. I've since switched to the xfce-desktop, and I'm still seeing the issue.

I suspect this has something to do with the framebuffer. I was also seeing a more widespread issue from the Karmic Gnome Desktop before I turned off "effects" (turned off compiz?). The machine in question is a Dell Latitude C610. This is definitely a regression from Jaunty. Is there a way to indicate that?

WubiNeophyte (wubibugs)
summary: - gnome-system-monitor shows blur window in Xubuntu Karmic.
+ gnome-system-monitor shows blur window in Karmic.
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nxD (daniel-nix) wrote :

Same here, IBM T43 upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic (xfce4), system monitor, notify-osd and gnome do are blurred.
See also http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1285406
I reinstalled Gnome, but still the same (I kept my home folder on a separate partition).
I created a new user which had not this problem.
Back to first user, I turned effects on to normal (effects where turned off), it finally worked.
I installed xfce4 and logged into it, back the problem.
So for me, now in Gnome it works fine, but on xfce4 it's still blurred.

So as it works fine for second user, I guess there's a config file which does nasty things.

WubiNeophyte (wubibugs)
tags: added: regression-release
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WubiNeophyte (wubibugs) wrote :

This is a regression in Karmic.

== Regression details ==
Discovered in version: 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
Last known good version: 2.26.0.1-0ubuntu1

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Stjepan Brbot (stjepan-brbot) wrote :

I have the same problem. Compaq Evo N620C with Xubuntu Karmic and ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] graphic card - System Monitor and notifications are not readable - as shown on first screenshot attached here.

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we can't fix it because your description didn't include enough information.

At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Thanks!

Could we get a list of the applications affected by this issue? So far, it appears to affect gnome-system-monity and notify-osd. Are there others?

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Incomplete
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Affenpeter (dorfmensch) wrote :

1. Nobody did anything specific, the problem seems to have been present right from the start for everybody (after an upgrade or fresh install). Most people here seem to use a Radeon Mobility graphics card.

2. Expected: normal behavior

3. Encountered: see screenshot above, same for notify-osd. The content is still somewhat shown, but heavily distorted & "tiled".

Please follow all the links provided here, they provide plenty of information.

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Elias Aarnio (elias-aarnio) wrote :

I have this problem too. I am running Karmic on IBM Thinkpad T42.

lspci lists the card:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]

Screenshot attached.

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ARG6077 (giffordar) wrote :

I have it too on an IBM Thinkpad T30
lspci shows it as an ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] with 128MB

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WubiNeophyte (wubibugs) wrote :

Don't see why this was marked incomplete. There are plenty of people seeing this. What exactly makes the report incomplete?

Changed in ubuntu:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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alexlet (letster) wrote :

Can be solved by editing xorg.conf file. Please add accelmethod exa in device section.
Like this:
Section "Device"
        Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
EndSection

Looks like it is same issue here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/416001

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Guille (guille-querol) wrote :
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