Comment 40 for bug 753144

You could uninstall all proprietary nVidia drivers and then install unity 2D

Sincerely,
Josh

On May 2, 2011, at 10:18 AM, sylvain972 <email address hidden> wrote:

> Since the problem seems to come from Nvidia, how to prevent Nvidia dysfunction, and how
> time to solve it?
>
> For me, pass the driver 173 does not help, I have a black screen on login screen ... So I can not
> using Ubuntu 4.11 ...
>
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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:
> Confirmed
> Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> 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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