Control window does not stay in foreground / covered by transparent window

[Rüdiger Kupper]

In Ubuntu Xenial (and former releases), ardesia cannot be used, because the window to control the drawing gets covered by the transparent window. That means that the buttons cannot be pressed, you can only draw on it. Thus, you cannot change colurs or pens, you can't even close ardesia.

See attached screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ardesia 1.1-2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jul 21 11:28:26 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-10 (71 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
JournalErrors:
 Error: command ['journalctl', '-b', '--priority=warning', '--lines=1000'] failed with exit code 1: Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
       Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
       turn off this notice.
 No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ardesia
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Rafael de Pelegrini Soares (rafael-rps)]

Hi all,

Just tested version 1.1-2.1 with 16.04 and have the same problem.

The program is unusable.

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

Tracked at Github:
https://github.com/gfreeau/ardesia/issues/80

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

Debian has this bud marked as fixed, but it is definitely not fixed in Ubuntu Xenial. I tried it this afternoon, problem unchanged. Has Debian a newer version than Xenial?