Ubuntu

Unclickable area of the screen

Bug #776011 reported by Mosab Al-Shami on 2011-05-03

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #709461: Application windows can sometimes fail to display and will mask regions of the screen. Edit Remove

This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

There is an area in Unity Desktop which cannot be clicked or right-clicked or even scrolled. even if any application is open that area still unclickable either when I am using a web-browser or text editor or the Desktop its self. I am not sure if this is an Xorg bug or Unity. but its kind of annoying.
if there is a button in that area that I want to click I have to move the window away from the area so I can click. so its not related to any application. please see photo.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Tue May 3 02:59:31 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
fglrx, 8.840, 2.6.38-8-generic, i686: installed
bcmwl, 5.100.82.38+bdcom, 2.6.38-8-generic, i686: installed
GraphicsCard:
ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD 5600 Series] [1002:68c1] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:fd00]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
JockeyStatus:
kmod:wl - Broadcom STA wireless driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use) [auto-install]
xorg:fglrx - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
MachineType: TOSHIBA Satellite L670
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=61708018-a840-452d-9d73-435c26568ce5 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/20/11
dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.bios.version: 2.10
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: NALAA
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: 1.00
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: *
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvr2.10:bd01/20/11:svnTOSHIBA:pnSatelliteL670:pvrPSK3EE-01H00HTE:rvnTOSHIBA:rnNALAA:rvr1.00:cvnTOSHIBA:ct9:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Satellite L670
dmi.product.version: PSK3EE-01H00HTE
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2
version.fglrx-installer: fglrx-installer N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7

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Mosab Al-Shami (mosabama) wrote on 2011-05-03:

Area of the unclickable area on the Desktop Edit (88.8 KiB, image/jpeg)
BootDmesg.txt Edit (51.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (3.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgLog.txt Edit (49.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (36.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog.txt Edit (38.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog1.txt Edit (40.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog2.txt Edit (38.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GlConf.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (12.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (667 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (3.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (137.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (298.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UnitySupportTest.txt Edit (622 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgConf.txt Edit (114 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (53.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (56.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (3.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
locale.txt Edit (335 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
peripherals.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (233 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (21.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xinput.txt Edit (915 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (54.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Pedro Carrasco (blare82) wrote on 2011-05-06:

This bug is happening to me too... :( really annoying...
I found a workaround, it may be usefull to somebody: create a launcher with the following command (or run it on a terminal)

unity --replace

[NOTE the double minus sign]

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Zach Burnham (thejambi) wrote on 2011-06-07:

And if you are not using Unity, running compiz --replace is what you want.