Synaptic (and others) shows graphic errors in menu bar

[tommy]

Clicking on any menu entry in Synaptic except "File", produces graphic errors in the menu bar, it looks like a strange shadow effect. I also noticed this behavior in "Nixnote" which shows exactly the same error. Both have no global menu.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: synaptic 0.75.12build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 29 11:41:41 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-17 (12 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Could you please attach a screenshot?
By default it's not possible to use the screenshot hotkey while a menu is open, but you can use the following method:
1. open a terminal
2. open synaptic
3. run 'gnome-screenshot -d 5' from the terminal, and you have 5 seconds to go to synaptic and open the menu
4. save the screenshot and crop as required
Thank you in advance!

[tommy (thomas-kloiber)]

It looks like this ...

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thanks, that looks like a rendering issue, and as you have mentioned it appearing with more applications, I will reassign to compiz (something else might be the culprit, but it's not synaptic, I think), hopefully someone more experienced with rendering issues will know what's causing this, and if it's not compiz, will reassign it to the correct package.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1057528, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.