No... it affects only older, integrated nvidia cards. My new nvidia card is unaffected, same with my friend's. If it were all nvidia products, people would be knocking down doors at canonical and nvidia, flooding them with complaints. It affects a good number of people, but most fix the problem with an older nvidia driver and a few more with BIOS configurations. Very few cannot walk away with the problem worked around.

On Jul 30, 2011, at 5:29 PM, cccccccc <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hmm I really do not know anything about celestia, but I do not agree
> with you that this bug affects a small percentage of users. I think it
> affect all nVidia users using compiz. I would guess vast majority uses
> compiz and vast majority has nVidia graphic card (my opinion)
> 
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> Title:
> focused, or maximized windows blank
> 
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
> Invalid
> Status in NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in Unity:
> Invalid
> Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> 
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: compiz
> 
> I have discovered a fairly consistent behavior: When multiple
> aplications are open, the bug can manifest itself as: the active
> window is blank (white in my case... title bar displays but nothing
> else.) while windows behind it will display content. If one of the
> unfocused windows is selected, it gains focus, and goes blank. The
> previously blank window, no longer focused, regains its content and is
> no longer blank.
> 
> Switching between applications, the ones gaining focus always going
> blank only to regain content after losing focus is quite infuriating.
> 
> To force an application to quit being blank, another application is
> opened, and applications are switched until the blanking behavior
> begins for the new application. (I use terminal as my dummy app...)
> Terminal is given focus, observed to be blank, and closed. The
> aplication which was behind the dummy application gains focus, and
> does not go blank. (this has been verified in classic desktop, not yet
> in unity)
> 
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> Package: compiz 1:0.9.4git20110322-0ubuntu5
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
> Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
> Architecture: i386
> CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,place,vpswitch,regex,gnomecompat,mousepoll,imgpng,move,snap,resize,grid,scale,wall,session,animation,expo,ezoom,staticswitcher]
> Date: Wed Apr  6 21:40:19 2011
> DistroCodename: natty
> DistroVariant: ubuntu
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
> InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANGUAGE=en_US:en
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
> SourcePackage: compiz
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-05 (1 days ago)
> version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.1-0ubuntu3
> version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu1
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