1 pixel icons in notification-area-applet when compiz is the windows manager

[nakki]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Install compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110531-0ubuntu1 from natty-proposed:
Test case:
                0) Use gnome-classic
                1) Open up qtdemo
                2) Navigate to Desktop -> Systray
                3) Run the demo
                4) The tray icon should appear and not be one px

I use gnome classic, not unity. Every time I open skype in notification area doesn't appear the skype's icon, only one green pixel!
See the image attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 20 13:54:17 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-panel/notification-area-applet
GConfNonDefault:
 /apps/panel/general/applet_id_list=[applet_1,applet_0,indicator_applet_screen0,applet_2]
 /apps/panel/general/object_id_list=[object_0,menu_bar_screen0,browser_launcher_screen0,object_1,object_2]
 /apps/panel/general/toplevel_id_list=[top_panel_screen0]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=it_IT:en
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

It happens in unity as well, but not every time for me. Killing skype and restarting it seems to fix it. I think the icon has been scaled down to one pixel because that pixel acts like a the skype icon (ie you can get a menu and show/hide skype using the pixel).

[Hadrien Dussuel (dbkblk)]

I also have this bug. On classic gnome, with all non-indicators apps that use systray !

[Hadrien Dussuel (dbkblk)]

I've noticed that icons show up when using metacity and disappears when using compiz !

[Zsolt Lauter (lauterzsolti)]

Is this really a bug? Come on! I can't see that ugly green icon any more, all of the icons on the panel are monochrome (and there is this 1px for Skype and the buddy list comes up when you click on it). This one is the kindest bug I have ever seen!

[Hadrien Dussuel (dbkblk)]

To answer about that, Skype icon is ugly for sure but ALL THE APPS THAT DON'T USE INDICATORS ARE AFFECTED by this bug !

I thought this bug could be classified as "medium", not "low" because Classic gnome become unusable (and as a consequence, Ubuntu 11.04, because i don't like unity).

[Millioner (lucky-bbb)]

It is very annoying bug. It is not only for skype - all programs, which sets icons to area: qutim, qBittorrent, clementine, vlc, exaile, shutter and other. It really creates difficulties in my work.

[zdmytriv (zdmytriv)]

Same for me. Ubuntu Classic - no tray icons. Please fix it asap

[FM33 (foxxm)]

+1

[Michal Predotka (mpredotka)]

I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 from 10.10 and I have this bug in Unity. Skype icon size is about 1px. See screenshot.

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

i confirm the comment #4

[Jaroslaw Rychalski (rikhalskiy)]

Same for me. There isn't skype or VLC icons. Just one pixel. Icons shows well if applet is added to panel after application started.

[Skripatch (enazarev)]

That is strange but ktorrent shows well.

[geezee (geezee-snooop)]

Same here. Just one pixel for Skype and VLC. Pidgin shows up fine.

[Andrey (waster2008)]

Confirm the bug appearing with Compiz enabled for VLC, Skype, Qutim.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

bug #775324 suggest it's specific to Qt application, could it be a Qt issue?

[Matias Pecchia (mabeett)]

systray application from QT Demo has been tried in fluxbox Window manager and wordked properly.
systray application in lucid works properly with the gnome-panel provided. (the same binary copied).

[Kai Webber (kai11)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649176

[Thomas Mortagne (thomas-mortagne)]

Same bug here with Skype. Note that the first skype instance is pretty much invisible in the notification area but if I start another one the second works well (except the fact thatI get an error because there is already a skype running of course). I can then kill the first one and the the icon is still here.

Would be great to fix this important regression.

[Mike Gerber (mikegerber)]

Same here on my (upgraded) natty, no icons for Clementine and Skype in the notification bar in Unity or Ubuntu classic. I *do* get icons when using "Ubuntu Classic (No effects)".

ii skype 2.2.0.25-1mave VOIP and instant messaging client
ii clementine 0.7.1-0ubuntu2 Modern music player and library organiser in

[Kai Webber (kai11)]

Mike Gerber, thanks for "no effects" mode hint. Works for me

[Sebastian Bugiu (sebastian-bugiu)]

Does No effects mean Metacity? Because I no longer have that tab since I installed ccsm.

[Mike Gerber (mikegerber)]

Sebastian Bugiu: Yes, it's metacity.

[Marcus Sundman (sundman)]

At least switching compiz->metacity on-the-fly didn't make my skype icon bigger on-the-fly. Nor did switching back to compiz.

[Ben Stokes (ben-ukstokes)]

Here's a crappy workaround for people on 'classic mode' that have the problem.

Launch skype
Open applications - terminal, and type: killall gnome-panel

This fixes the problem for Skype and Shutter, not sure about other apps that use the notification area.

[Matias Pecchia (mabeett)]

killall gnome-panel or killall notification-area-applet (then reload applet) will make the notification applet starts again.

But when you have more than 1 QT application ones have 1px icon and others the regular icon. (psi, hp-systray, skype, ktorrent...)

[Drakej (drakej)]

I don't get how they possibly missed this while testing 11.04 this issue was one of the first things I noticed within 10 minutes of use. That and the issue with multi display mode using ATI in Unity duping the gnome-panel. Seriously these issues are making me think it's time to switch distros for the first time in 5+ years.

[Luca Manzari (manzariluca)]

MAbeeTT thanks a lot for your suggestion, it works :D
Of course is not a fix, but at leaste skype is now usable!
I've made a "killall notification-area-applet" launcher on my panel, so I just have to hit it after I launch a qt application and everything works, that's how it looks

http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/9282/immaginerur.png

pretty, uh? :D

[Sebastian Bugiu (sebastian-bugiu)]

Drakej: I reported the bug like two or three weeks before the release so they knew about it. It's just taking time to fix it, who knows how complicated this may be? This is programming, sometimes you make great progress in a small amount of time, other times you have a stupid bug for weeks and cannot find it and fix it. Cut them some slack please. The release date was fixed and they weren't going to push back just for these rather small but annoying issues.

[Teo Siang Hoe (andy1116)]

Hey, I just switched from Windows to Ubuntu 12 hours ago so I might not know what I am doing.

I also have the same problem with the 1 pixel icon in the panel so I looked around and found this file. Run it in the terminal and select restore panel to default. Now my skype icon is showing perfectly. I hope it helps.

[puzzled (puzzled)]

Same here, made a bug report at bugzilla.gnome

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> I don't get how they possibly missed this while testing 11.04 this issue was one of the first things I noticed within 10 minutes of use.

There is nothing using notification icons in the default installation and only selected softwares are whitelisted there

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

@puzzled there is already an upstream bug here. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649176

[Kai Webber (kai11)]

Can anyone check this bug in gnome3 and post results to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649176 ?

[Luca Tonin (luca-tonin)]

I have the same bug:
Natty 11.04 64bit with Classical gnome

I think I found a solution.
The problem is the area dedicated to app icons: it is not resized automatically, when a new icon comes (for instance skype's icon).

on the top panel:
-> Unlock notification area applet
-> resize it manually
-> lock it again

It's still a bug but then it works.

[BSA (b-s-a)]

I have no problem in Ubuntu Classic, but in Ubuntu (Unity) cannot open psi-plus menu - no ANY icon in notification area are visible. Skype shows icon without problems in both modes.

Ubuntu 11.04, amd64, ATi Mobility Radeon 9600

[Sebastian Bugiu (sebastian-bugiu)]

I notice that now Vlc player icon is also a dot, a small 1px orange dot. it worked just fine yesterday. Should I report another bug or it's enough here? Check out the attachment to the left of the green Skype pixel.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

We have already an upstream bug that links to this downstream one...

No new bugs are needed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

if you have bugs about specific application i.e psi-plus check if a bug has been opened against those or unity and open an unity bug about whitelisting those,

[Dmitri (lamukra)]

Problem seems to be connected with compiz...
I have another workaround, for those with whom reading notification area to panel does not work.
Each time I open Skype I change Compiz to Metacity Window Manager - MWM - install compiz fusion icon from Software Center .
While Metacity is enabled REMOVE notification area from panel and add again and same with vlc.
Now you should see icons of skype and vlc (this was for when you started skype or vlc while compiz was selected a window manager)

other way around is to switch to MWM first then start Skype or VLC and go back to compiz

I know it is annoying, but this one works for me
Problem is that on one machine ( Radeon HD 5650) reading notification applet workd, on another (Radeon HD 4350) it does not...

So I am sticking with this workaround for now, I hope it will help someone and I hope this bug will be fixed ASAP

[Sebastian Bugiu (sebastian-bugiu)]

For some reason right now it all works just fine, both Vlc and Skype icons. I installed Apache2 package, mySql both server and client and Mysql administrator and Query Browse, and php5 and php5-xdebug. I also installed Kompozer and updated Netbeans and that is pretty much it. After restarting the computer the panel seems to work fine icons showing allright. I'll update with more info when I encounter more odd behavior.

[Habib (habibseifzadeh)]

I found another workaround for skype icon:

I created a script containing "sleep 10 && skype" and add it to the startup applications. The skype icon never becomes a dot for couple of days.

[Sebastian Bugiu (sebastian-bugiu)]

Restarted and the bug is back. No changes whatsoever to the system.

[Tony_Harrison (toy-ruby)]

Regarding qBittorrent:
Full icon appears when launched from terminal
(Almost) never appears when launched from Applications Menu

[Edward Deng (deng-yingqiu)]

My problem happens on 11.04 amd64, Unity desktop. I installed Skype through "Software Center". At the beginning, everything goes well. After a long time use (maybe 1 or 2 hours, actually it's not long on my machine), Skype icon in notification area disappears, but the process is still running. There's even no 1 pixel indicator. No message can be received and no notification. I have to kill the process and start Skype again. No workaround is found.

[demitov (demitov)]

I use Ubuntu 11.04 x64 without the "Unity"
Same problem with psi, but icon skype is displayed normally.

[Luis Andrés Gonzalez (luisandresgonzalez)]

Same thing for me in Ubuntu Classic. Like Edward Deng, in Unity there's not even a pixel indicator. The workaround suggested by Teo Siang Hoe using the shell script worked for me. The problem is that i have to do it every time I run skype.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Separating the tasks for Natty and Oneiric.

This bug is killing me. Makes Skype basically unusable. I've marked the Natty task 'high' and targeted it at natty-updates. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully the Desktop team can take a look at this and get it fixed in an SRU. I'll gladly do test natty-proposed packages.

Thanks,
Dustin

[Charles Herdt (charles-herdt)]

I use Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit on Ubuntu Classic interface.
Just unlocking the notification area and restarting skype caused the bug to go away.
Probably something related to resizing.

[Sebastian Bugiu (sebastian-bugiu)]

I noticed something interesting: sometimes the system boots up very fast (most of the times) and sometimes it takes a while (not just a little longer but a lot longer). When the system boots fast I get 1 px icons and when it takes its time it shows the icons correctly (both Skype and Vlc). From what I understand it's the metapackage ureadahead that does this fluctuations in the time it takes to boot, and maybe it influences the order in which things are loaded, thus leading to the gnome-panel showing the icons correctly for that session.

[Christopher Semmler (bazong)]

Another workaround for this: Go to skype settings and check "start skype in minimized mode". It works for me, the skype icon never was displayed in 1 pixel size anymore.

[Vasiliy Korol (vasya-korol2000)]

I have the same thing with Eiskaltdc++ Qt.
It seems that this bug affects all QT applications which minimize to tray.
The workaround with "killall notification-area-applet" works, but it takes two or three times to run the command for all the icons to appear in the tray correctly.

[Andrei Karpenko (andy-karpenko)]

killall gnome-panel works sometimes, not always.
"start skype in minimized mode" doesn't work

[ctrl (dario-dariocorti)]

I noticed that: if I run skype as first "iconized" application.. it shows up. If I run pidgin before skype, then skype only appears if I remove and add again the notification applet. If I run pidgin, shutter and skype, skype icon doesn't appear no matter what I do. If then I close shutter, remove notification applet and put it again, skype appears.

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

The bug is definitely related to compiz. I installed compiz 0.8.6 on natty and notification-area works fine

[Oleksa Stasevych (oleksiy-stasevych)]

2Guiodic: Can you explain, how did you make the downgrade of compiz?

[astraluxkl (astraluxkl)]

my actions to repair the bug:
I added in "Autostart Applications" .. the command: "gnome-panel --replace"

[Vasiliy Korol (vasya-korol2000)]

The solution by astraluxkl didn't work for me. Still, only "killall notification-area-applet" works sometimes.

[geezee (geezee-snooop)]

After the last sistem update via update manager, the vlc icon shows up (didn't show up before), but the skype icon still doesn't -> one pixel.

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

@oleska: I did a my own ppa and adding it using pinning in apt preferences but I wont explain it here because is a ugly procedure.
But I conform that notification area works fine with compiz 0.8.6

[Chenf (chenlao-hotmail)]

Skype icon comes after kill the skype process and restart it, in my natty x64. But postpone start (sleep a few seconds before launch skype) doesn't work for me.

Seems lots of people using skype, hope fix this issue soon, though now its MS skype.

[Eugene Romanenko (eros2)]

2 Chenf: people using not only Skype, but also Psi, qutIM and many other qt apps which also affected by this bug.

[Robert Hrovat (robi-hipnos)]

We use our own QT app which show cost and data usage of 3G connections abroad and is autostared. Since upgrading to 11.04 (or even clean install), the icon is not showing anymore. Logoff/login or killall and restart application helps, but those are not the solutions for ordinary users that actually uses those notebooks.

[Daniel James (daniel-netbreeze)]

Ever since I disabled the new scrollbars this has not been an issue for me!

sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar liboverlay-scrollbar-0.1-0

[JR (juergen-richtsfeld)]

I've just tried removing the overlay-scrollbar and even rebooted after that but it didn't help.

[Eugene Romanenko (eros2)]

2 Daniel James, I also have overlay scrollbars removed, but issue still here.

[derwiwie (derwiwie)]

Vasiliy Korol's approach works for me. "killall notification-area-applet"

[Taiten Peng (taitenpeng)]

I can confirm icon "might" back if try kill "notification-area-applet"
but not works every time,

[Adam Łyskawa (a-lyskawa)]

Please, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/775196

It's very important you visit this bug and answer if it affects you. There is no real workaround. The bug is random and restarting notification-area-applet until it shows all tray icons is pointless. We're still with the bug and we even don't know what causes it.

I think it's related to Compiz, because switching to Metacity fixes the issue. Note that you have to restart your Qt application after switching to Metacity. So it's possible it's Compiz bug. All possible help needed with this one, if it's Compiz, its team doesn't know how many people are affected by it.

[Berend De Schouwer (berend-de-schouwer)]

Problem gone with Gnome3

[Craig Esterhuizen (craigesterhuizen)]

I had this problem on Unity desktop, but since then I have re-installed
Ubuntu Natty from a setup disk. Before I had a weather indicator which
showed an icon on the notification area. If I then started Skype I got the
problem of a 1 pixel icon. However now I have no other indicators installed
and I have no issues with the Skype icon whatsoever. I was and still am
running Compiz. I have not tried installing any other Qt applications
though.

On 23 May 2011 12:32, Adam Łyskawa <email address hidden> wrote:

> Please, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/775196
>
> It's very important you visit this bug and answer if it affects you.
> There is no real workaround. The bug is random and restarting
> notification-area-applet until it shows all tray icons is pointless.
> We're still with the bug and we even don't know what causes it.
>
> I think it's related to Compiz, because switching to Metacity fixes the
> issue. Note that you have to restart your Qt application after switching
> to Metacity. So it's possible it's Compiz bug. All possible help needed
> with this one, if it's Compiz, its team doesn't know how many people are
> affected by it.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug (764828).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/767095
>
> Title:
> 1 pixel icons in notification-area-applet for qt softwares (e.g.
> Skype)
>
> Status in Desktop panel for GNOME:
> Incomplete
> Status in Skype:
> Invalid
> Status in Unity:
> Invalid
> Status in “eiskaltdcpp” package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “eiskaltdcpp” source package in Natty:
> New
> Status in “gnome-panel” source package in Natty:
> Confirmed
> Status in “eiskaltdcpp” source package in Oneiric:
> New
> Status in “gnome-panel” source package in Oneiric:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-panel
>
> I use gnome classic, not unity. Every time I open skype in notification
> area doesn't appear the skype's icon, only one green pixel!
> See the image attached.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> Package: gnome-panel 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6.3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Wed Apr 20 13:54:17 2011
> ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-panel/notification-area-applet
> GConfNonDefault:
>
> /apps/panel/general/applet_id_list=[applet_1,applet_0,indicator_applet_screen0,applet_2]
>
> /apps/panel/general/object_id_list=[object_0,menu_bar_screen0,browser_launcher_screen0,object_1,object_2]
> /apps/panel/general/toplevel_id_list=[top_panel_screen0]
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
> ProcEnviron:
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> LANGUAGE=it_IT:en
> LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
> SourcePackage: gnome-panel
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-panel/+bug/767095/+subscribe
>

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

Please, deassign the bug in upstream. GNOME-panel is now de facto unsupported.

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

gnome-panel is de facto unsupported in upstream.

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

> Problem gone with Gnome3

Obviously. GNOME 3 doesn't use compiz nor gnome-panel.

[Marek Blahuš (blahma)]

I, too, had a weather indicator on the panel (that one which comes with the clock) which I cannot make working again in Natty with GNOME2 (Compiz), although I can see the weather information below the time zone map when the clock is expanded - don't know if this is related, though.

I oppose calling this uncritical, because this affects Skype which I need to use every day and once you close its window there is no way to get it back (except for the "killall notification-area-applet" work-around) while Skype's process is still running. I did not find any setting in Skype that would tell it to terminate once I close its window. Gnome-panel may be obsolete, but there are still applications which depend on it.

[Omer P. (omerp)]

Guiodic, could you please explain the procedure for downgrading to compiz 0.8.6 in natty (with ppa and pinning in apt-preferences)? I'm very interested in doing that, and I would be very grateful.

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

> Guiodic, could you please explain the procedure for downgrading to compiz 0.8.6 in natty (with ppa and pinning in
> apt-preferences)? I'm very interested in doing that, and I would be very grateful.

Are you sure? :-)
Please, consider that compizconfig breaks, so you must configure compiz via gconf-editor.
I would like do not explain the procedure here because is a very dirty workaround and unawared users should break their systems.
If you want, I can send the procedure to you privately via mail. Write me gudo(dot)iodice(at)gmail(dot)com

[lokster (lokiisyourmaster)]

With all this compiz & unity related bugs, and with the developers already claiming that gnome-panel is unsupported and gnome-panel bugs are invalid, I'm definitely switching to Xfce.
I was loyal GNOME user for years, but no more.

[Craig Esterhuizen (craigesterhuizen)]

Yup there seems to be a lot of buck passing going on with these tickets and
no one is grabbing the beast by the horns (sorry about the cliches).

[Michal Predotka (mpredotka)]

Guiodic, could you please, tell us why you marking this bug "invalid" in Unity? I do use Unity and it is affected by this bug.

[Matias Pecchia (mabeett)]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:39 AM, mmiicc <email address hidden> wrote:
> Guiodic, could you please, tell us why you marking this bug "invalid" in
> Unity? I do use Unity and it is affected by this bug.

Unity lacks gnome-panel and gnome-notication-area-applet. Check it:

 ps fax | egrep 'gnome-panel|notification-area'

Stop the noise, please

--
             .::MAbeeTT::.

 mabeett [at] gmail [ dot] com
 some time ago:

 mtspcchaiaeia [at] gmail [dot] com

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

@Adam Lyskawa
(Regarding https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/767095/comments/70.)

Is there any reason that bug (bug 775196) should not be marked as a duplicate of this one? (This is the newer bug, but significantly more progress has been made in this bug. If bug 775196 were marked as a duplicate of this bug, and you think the bug is *really* in compiz rather than gnome-panel, then compiz should be added to this bug as an affected package.)

[tkoun (tkoun)]

if this is not a serious bug I don't know what it is! still being unassigned is simply a disgrace...
seriously how can someone use this thing if most Qt tray icons are not showing?

because of this (not to mention other hicks of lesser importance e.g. the gnome battery indicator which is not one, ia32_libs issues etc.) Natty is in my opinion still in B status (B for bullshit and not beta).

Good workaround: downgrade to maverick or switch to XFCE

PS: @Guiodic thanx for the only useful comment so far (using aptitude the process is fairly simple but don't forget to downgrade the gtk-decorator)

[Michal Predotka (mpredotka)]

MAbeeTT, after running your command I get:
michal@michal-Inspiron-530:~$ ps fax | egrep 'gnome-panel|notification-area'
 8477 pts/0 S+ 0:00 \_ egrep --color=auto gnome-panel|notification-area
michal@michal-Inspiron-530:~$

Unfortunately I have no idea what that means.

Anyway, bug #768131 (about Unity) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/768131 is marked as a duplicate of this bug, so I think this bug should affect Unity as well.

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

I marked "my" bug 775196 as a duplicate of this, again, and I added compiz as affected package.

[tkoun (tkoun)]

this bug is duplicate of this and this, that one should be duplicate of that... No I don't agree... Yes it should... and so forth and so on. I guess all bugs are duplicates of bug 666...

one month and 3 days after the initial report of this show stopper still looking for duplicates, great!

[Eugene Romanenko (eros2)]

About a workaround...
Real workaround is turn compiz off.
Disabling compiz "fixes" this bug, also Bug #755459 and Bug #697358. Compiz is root of all evil. ))

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

tkoun, I'm in agree. Ubuntu has an Desktop experience team that don't see this heavy regression but spend their time with very cool (!!!) scrollbars.

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

eros2: very interesting... I subscribed the other bugs too.

[Marcin Dylewski (marcin-dylewski-m)]

Another QT software affected is Kadu.

[tkoun (tkoun)]

very cool scrollbars indeed! they could make them even better by adding a feature to make my skype, vidalia, hplip, vlc, keepassx... icons reappear.
I guess the "Ubuntu Desktop experience team" guys all work from the tty console and they do not have these "small" problems of desktop users. Not to speak for the guy that wanted to practice in C++ using compiz instead of "hello world".

Knock knock "Ubuntu Desktop experience team" anybody home?

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

@tkoun
It's not a "show stopper." This bug doesn't need more duplicates for progress to be made on it (and generally speaking, no duplicates are necessary for progress to be made on a bug). But discussion about duplicates is still worthwhile, because it's important to determine whether or not people are experiencing the same bug, or a different bug. With that said, I do agree with your sentiment that this extremely widespread bug has been sitting around for a long time without any apparent work toward a fix.

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

@tkoun
Unless by "show stopper" you were characterizing the severity of this bug, rather than commenting on the recent discussion about duplicates. If that is the case, then I agree, and I apologize for my confusion.

[tkoun (tkoun)]

@Eliah
it's a show stopper,
why? (let me give you a typical use-case)
because my wife couldn't have installed compiz 0.8.6 from Guiodic's PPA and if I was not there she would have simply rebooted to her Windows 7 partition not to return again in Linux land.

by the way metacity (the "no effects" alternative) simply sucks with video overlaying on 64bit/ATI-Radeon machine.

PS: I guess dealing with my frustration about this makes me wanna joke, as Stallman would have said "Join us now and save the software... tralali tralalo..."

[tkoun (tkoun)]

@Eliah
no problem. we're all in the same "natty" boat except for the guys working on this (they are on an "oneiric" trip)

the most important thing in the whole process is to click this-bug-affects-me button ...and... nothing will happen

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

> Not to speak for the guy that wanted to practice in C++ using compiz instead of "hello world".

This is FLOSS. Compiz folks does their work well and we must thank them. The duty of a *distributor* is to bring working software to users, not the last blending edge and unpatched stuff from git.

> as Stallman would have said "Join us now and save the software"

RMS sings "Join us and share the software". But surely he doesn't use Ubuntu and its not-working-at-all-desktop-experience. As I know, Stallman's Emacs works fine :-)

[Matias Pecchia (mabeett)]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:50 PM, mmiicc <email address hidden> wrote:
> MAbeeTT, after running your command I get:
> michal@michal-Inspiron-530:~$ ps fax | egrep 'gnome-panel|notification-area'
>  8477 pts/0    S+     0:00      \_ egrep --color=auto gnome-panel|notification-area
> michal@michal-Inspiron-530:~$
>
> Unfortunately I have no idea what that means.

It means you are not running gnome-panel, Unity does not run it.
Uniity does not have notification area for systray apps. check it wit
a non QT app like miro, or the vino-preferences' icon.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

> Uniity does not have notification area for systray apps.

Just a small correction - unity *does* have a notification area for systray apps - that's where Skype appears - and that is where the 1-pixel problem is happening, almost as if the notification area were being created 1 pixel high and apps were being added to it (and hence their icons scaled to 1 pixel) before it gets resized.

FYI, you have to whitelist apps to allow them to appear there (eg see http://www.fewt.com/2011/03/whitelist-utility-script-to-allow-apps.html for a useful script).

[Gergely Fábián (gergely.fabian)]

Hi all,

I've been watching this bug on two computers (both are constantly updated natties), and I have noticed that Skype icons appears after each second restart. So at each "odd" restart it's invisible, but at each "even" restart it's visible. I have seen checked, and it's not dependent on the login (I can log out and in, but Skype will be still in the "current state"), but the restart.
I haven't applied any other workaround.
I don't know whether this helps.

And to join tkoun... I have switched two machines to Natty that I'm rarely using. The one that is the most used is still on Maverick, and I won't upgrade it until this bug is fixed. If it won't be fixed (maybe due to it's "Invalidity" or "Low" priority) then I may consider switching to Debian or other distro. I have seen many new Ubuntu versions at the beginning (even in alpha/beta), but this one with this bug seems to be the worse (and I'm sorry, if I need to contact my colleagues all day long by Skype, and I'm effectively unable to do that, then how should I consider this bug?).

[Tehnick (tehnick)]

@tkoun
> it's a show stopper,
> why? (let me give you a typical use-case)
> because my wife couldn't have installed compiz 0.8.6 from Guiodic's PPA and if I was not there she would have simply rebooted to her Windows 7 partition not to return again in Linux land.

This is not MS Windows. You can use any DE, for example: KDE, LXDE, XFCE or any other environment made manualy. There is no such bug in Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Xubuntu. It was your choise to install Ubuntu with Gnome or Unity.

Also you forgot that Ubuntu developers are making a big job. You can show them their mistakes, open and discuss bug reports. But you haven't got moral rights to scold them or insult. Even if you are absolutely disagree with them.

> PS: I guess dealing with my frustration about this makes me wanna joke, as Stallman would have said "Join us now and save the software... tralali tralalo..."

RMS is great man. He made a lot for people and our future.
But I can see only funny noise from you. Not more...

Good luck on your way.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

(Using the unity milestone to track it as an SRU for the dx team)

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

First of all, if this bug affects you, please, use the "affects me" button. Do not add comments to the bug unless you have useful information that might assist the developers in fixing the bug. This is what bugtrackers are for. It is more efficient for the devlelopers when the comments contain useful information.

Second of all, DX have been looking into this issue. It is complicated and make take some time. However, we will re-prioritise to get this in for the next SRU.

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

> This is not MS Windows. You can use any DE, for example: KDE, LXDE, XFCE or any other environment made manualy

You do miss the point. Ubuntu comes with GNOME, not KDE, LXDE etc. and gnome-panel and compiz are officially supported, not something in universe.

> Second of all, DX have been looking into this issue.

why no one in DX team asked a test or more info?

> we will re-prioritise to get this in for the next SRU.
Thank you,.

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

Is there someone expert in python 2.6 > 2.7 (and viceversa) transition? the problem forward-porting Compiz 0.8.6 to Natty is that Compizconfig 0.8.x works with python 2.6 and I was not able to rebuild it on Natty.
Please, write me in private ONLY if you think to have a solution: guido(dot)iodice(at)gmail(dot)com

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

From a question retated to this bug:

In notification area icons with extension "PNG" are showed as 1x per 1px
icons width extensions "XPM" are showed normaly.
May be it is a bug in icons size detection for "PNG" format

Can someone confirm this behaviour?

[André Panisson (panisson)]

I have the same behavior even using Metacity: it changes nothing if I change from Compiz to Metacity using the Compiz Fusion Icon. I followed the steps on comment #40 but nothing changes. I have four icons on my notification area: Dropbox, Wicd, Skype and Compiz Fusion Icon. Sometimes the Skype icon appears when starting the computer, but if I close it, the only way to make it reappear is by removing the notification area and adding it again.

[tkoun (tkoun)]

@Guiodic
I do not know if downgrading python just to make the 0.8.6 config manager for compiz work in natty is worth the trouble. with so many python dependencies maybe it is less complicated to switch back to maverick altogether.

also, I can't see how this png vs xpm icon thing relates to compiz, if so would the png compiz plugin involved?

@Tehnick
how is your skype icon doing? mine I don't know because I can't see it!
just to prove that as a matter of fact the funny critique that you call noise is better than just prrrrr noise...

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

@tkoun: thank you, but I'm not so stupid :-) python2.6 is still present in Natty: http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/python2.6 simply it isn't the default python.
So, I need help only to make a working package of compizconfig (and related stuff) using it.

[Adam Łyskawa (a-lyskawa)]

I've just confirmed it for Unity notification area. Skype icon appears there most of the time, but sometimes it's just 1 pixel. Note that before appearing correctly, random noise square is displayed in noticeable 100 or 200ms. This should not happen, the icon should be displayed when it's ready, this looks like an uninitialized memory location was displayed shortly before.

[Marcin Dylewski (marcin-dylewski-m)]

@Adam: I don't see such behaviour with Skype - it basically never appears at my desktop. However Kadu bahaves exactly like you described - some random full-icon-sized image appears and then icon is shown. Where icon do not appear then this noise is nevert present. Hint with using unintialized memory sounds reasonable to me.

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

@Adam Łyskawa
Since Triaged is, in effect, even more confirmed than Confirmed (see https://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/Statuses and http://blog.launchpad.net/general/of-bugs-and-statuses)...why the change in unity from Triaged back to Confirmed?

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

Sorry, that second link isn't formatted properly. It's supposed to be: http://blog.launchpad.net/general/of-bugs-and-statuses

[Adam Łyskawa (a-lyskawa)]

My bad, it was a mistake. I can't take it back though. I didn't know it works this way.

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

@Adam Łyskawa
I don't think this is a big problem. You can't change it back because Triaged status can only be set by members of the QA team. Didier Roche had marked it Triaged originally; I've contacted him to suggest that he do so again.

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

Well, I haved success. I compiled all compiz packages from Maverick in Natty.

THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE - PLEASE GIVE ME FEEDBACK IN PRIVATE
NOTE THAT ***UNITY WILL BREAK***

0. Set Ubuntu classic as your session in GDM
1. Remove all packages related to compiz via synaptic (included libdecoration0, emerald, compizconfig etc)
2. Remove all unity related packages , note ubuntu-desktop will be removed after the step 1, don't worry.
3. Remove autoremovable packages (you can use synaptic)
4. add my PPA: ppa:guido-iodice/compiz-0.8.6-natty
5. update
6. install compiz, compiz-core, compiz-fusion-plugins-main, compiz-fusion-plugins-extra, compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported (optional), compiz-gnome, compiz-plugins, compizconfig-backend-gconf, compizconfig-settings-manager, libcompizconfig0, libdecoration0, python-compizconfig, and, if you want, simple-ccsm ::: note, some of this packages are dependencies so they will be selected when you select the main package.
7. login/log out

It is very simple, but be care!!!

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

Rather than recompile compiz, why not just use Habib's suggestion in comment #42 to work around the problem? ie create a script called, say, '/usr/bin/skype-delayed' containing something like:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 15; skype

and then change your startup applications to run skype-delayed instead of skype.

I've found that a 15 second delay works better than 10 seconds, possibly because Unity takes so long to initialize.

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Guiodic (Guido Iodice)
<email address hidden> wrote:
>> This is not MS Windows. You can use any DE, for example: KDE, LXDE,
> XFCE or any other environment made manualy
>
> You do miss the point. Ubuntu comes with GNOME, not KDE, LXDE etc. and
> gnome-panel and compiz are officially supported, not something in
> universe.
>
>> Second of all, DX have been looking into this issue.
>
> why no one in DX team asked a test or more info?

Because I can reproduce it and have been trying to figure out why it
happens. Give it some time.

>
>> we will re-prioritise to get this in for the next SRU.
> Thank you,.
>
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[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

recko, the problem is not skype on startup.
I don't use skype on startup. The problem is ANY application using notification area whatever you launch them.

[Adam Łyskawa (a-lyskawa)]

Try launching and quitting app quickly. I can break it in less than a minute this way.

[Tehnick (tehnick)]

@tkoun
> how is your skype icon doing? mine I don't know because I can't see it!
> just to prove that as a matter of fact the funny critique that you call noise is better than just prrrrr noise...

I don't use Skype at all. Also I didn't see such bug in Debian. I am maintainer of eiskaltdcpp package from Debian and I subscribed to this bug report only because it affects to Ubuntu users of our program. Unfortunaly, I haven't got free time to install Ubuntu to find solution of this bug. But I believe that Ubuntu developers enough qualified to fix this defect in the nearest future.

PS: sorry for offtop.

[tkoun (tkoun)]

I confirm that Guiodic solution (post #116) works and it's easy to apply.

@UbuntuTeam:
unless there is some Unity related concern requiring compiz 0.9.4, PLEASE consider reverting to compiz 0.8.6 in natty (as per Guiodic's workaround) as solution to this crippling bug which seems not so easy to fix and leave compiz 0.9.4 for oneiric ocelot or platonic penguin

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

@ tkoun : thank you for the feedback.

@ tkoun & UbuntuTeam : I don't think Ubuntu can revert compiz to 0.8.6 version in Natty. This would break Unity that is the real new stuff in Natty. And, I think the bug is more trivial than we think, the difficult is to find it in the code.
But, definitively, it is related to compiz.

[pitboss (pitboss2000)]

Hey guys. I am also affected by the bug and I am using unity. A temporary workaround that works for me (at least with disappeared skype icon) is killing compiz: killall -9 compiz. Hope this is helpful to someone, before a fix is released.

[Guiodic (Guido Iodice) (guido-iodice)]

@pitboss: this is a rough way . It is better to restart unity with

unity --replace

also

compiz --replace

should work.

[Helge Willum Thingvad (helgesdk)]

It seems the best workarounds so far is either:
a) Reverted to an older compiz as described in #116 (disables Unity).
b) Use the command >> killall -9 "notification-area-applet" << and reload the applet when prompted. Do it a couple of times and hopefully the icon will appear.

Using compiz --replace does not seem to be any more effective than workaround b) and it takes considerably more time.

I would really like to see this fixed in Ubuntu Classic as Unity is quite useless as long as I get severe graphical glitches when minimizing a window.

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

Spent about 8 hours looking into this one, fix is here:

https://code.launchpad.net/~unity-team/compiz-core/compiz-core.fix_767095/+merge/62711

Still awaiting review, will most likely end up in the next SRU upload. Thanks for your patience.

[Sebastián García Rojas (sebagr)]

That's great news, Sam. Can't wait to try it! Thanks for persevering :)

[Helge Willum Thingvad (helgesdk)]

Awesome, Sam - you're a star!

[tkoun (tkoun)]

great news!
Sam chasing this bugger for 8 hours is a great relief for all of us having regretted the upgrade to natty because of this.

thanx a lot!

[Craig Esterhuizen (craigesterhuizen)]

Thanks Sam, can you tell us when this will be available as an update from
the Natty repos? Sorry, I don't know your process so well.

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

It will go into -proposed in a week or two and then hit the main
archive once platform is happy that there are no regressions

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Craig Esterhuizen
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Thanks Sam, can you tell us when this will be available as an update from
> the Natty repos?  Sorry, I don't know your process so well.
>
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[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

@Sam: it will go in -proposed as soon as you will deliver the updated compiz tarball for the SRU. I hope you can deliver it before a week

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

Test case:

0) Use gnome-classic
1) Open up qtdemo
2) Navigate to Desktop -> Systray
3) Run the demo
4) The tray icon should appear and not be one px

[Filip Milivojevic (zekica)]

Any news on when will updated compiz packages be available?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1

---------------
compiz (1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New bug fix release:
    - Switcher window borders are not properly unmapped with
      (unity|gtk)-window-decorator (LP: #789580)
    - maximized window is displaced (LP: #772612)
    - Unity launcher gets visible while screensaver is active (LP: #771391)
    - 1 pixel icons in notification-area-applet when compiz is the windows
      manager (LP: #767095)
  * debian/patches/00_bzr_fix_apps_without_startupid.patch:
    - removed: upstream
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:18:08 +0200

[Guruprasad (lgp171188)]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Launchpad Bug Tracker
<email address hidden> wrote:
> This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1
>
> ---------------
> compiz (1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low
>
>  * New bug fix release:
>    - Switcher window borders are not properly unmapped with
>      (unity|gtk)-window-decorator (LP: #789580)
>    - maximized window is displaced (LP: #772612)
>    - Unity launcher gets visible while screensaver is active (LP: #771391)
>    - 1 pixel icons in notification-area-applet when compiz is the windows
>      manager (LP: #767095)
>  * debian/patches/00_bzr_fix_apps_without_startupid.patch:
>    - removed: upstream
>  -- Didier Roche <email address hidden>   Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:18:08 +0200
>
> ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu Oneiric)
>       Status: New => Fix Released

Is this referring to release to proposed or updates?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted compiz into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Ivan Osadchii (tepoga)]

Works good so far, wasn't able to trigger the bug after update. Thanks a lot!

[Alex (alexander-stehlik)]

After installing the compiz packages from natty-proposed the icons appear. Thank you very much! :)

[Tony_Harrison (toy-ruby)]

Works perfectly! Thanks Sam and everyone else who got this released!

[Omer P. (omerp)]

I appreciate your work, Sam.

[rant]

But I think there's a separate lesson to be learned here: When such a major overhaul as was done to compiz is undertaken, making it impossible for users to use the previous version (as was the case here, where natty users *could not* go back to 0.8.6, until Guiodic made his wonderful PPA) is just bad practice.

There are numerous other problems with the current version of compiz, numerous other reasons to want to stay at 0.8.6 for now (for example, the newer version crashes every window decorator except the unity-window-decorator, such as emerald, etc.) -- this is not a knock on compiz or its developers, of course; no software is free of bugs, and early in the lifecycle of every new major overhaul, there will be its share of problems. Not only that, but I imagine some of the compatibility issues (e.g. emerald) are just as likely to be bugs in the interfacing modules, rather than bugs in compiz. But the fact that someone had to hack a solution to enable users to downgrade is just poor usability.

[/rant]

[SebG (sebg)]

Works for me, too. Icon shows up now.

However I just experienced a strange behavior in the xsane scan preview window. (Contents are drawn in window, two black approx 5px wide bars are drawn when mouse is moved in window, one horizontally, one vertically.)
Please ignore this if noone else can confirm this issue :-) it may be related to something else.

[Marcin Dylewski (marcin-dylewski-m)]

I am another happy user who can report that problem went away. Additionally it looks like it fixed a two other bugs and introduces one new (at least for me):
- So far i haven't noticed any gnome-applet crashes
- Emerald finaly works

There is one regression tough - when I switch to Emerald shadows that should appear under the right edge of each window are not displayed at all. Could you please advise to which package the bug should be raised - emerald or compiz?

[Adam Łyskawa (a-lyskawa)]

Now it works.
I even use Emerald decorator without problems (but it's hacked PPA version). The other bug with Compiz remained - when I switch window blur on and off - unity top panel breaks and requires unity --replace. But it's an old bug and it's probably display driver dependent.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

The new version fixes it for me, and I haven't noticed any side effects. Once one of my notification-area icons was initially half-drawn after login (it was considerably bigger than one pixel, though) but a few seconds later it redrew itself correctly.

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Marcin Dylewski
<email address hidden> wrote:
> I am another happy user who can report that problem went away. Additionally it looks like it fixed a two other bugs and introduces one new (at least for me):
> - So far i haven't noticed any gnome-applet crashes
> - Emerald finaly works
>
> There is one regression tough - when I switch to Emerald shadows that
> should appear under the right edge of each window are not displayed at
> all. Could you please advise to which package the bug should be raised -
> emerald or compiz?
>

Emerald has been unsupported for a very very long time.

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[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Omer P. <email address hidden> wrote:
> I appreciate your work, Sam.
>
> [rant]
>
> But I think there's a separate lesson to be learned here: When such a
> major overhaul as was done to compiz is undertaken, making it impossible
> for users to use the previous version (as was the case here, where natty
> users *could not* go back to 0.8.6, until Guiodic made his wonderful
> PPA) is just bad practice.

Non-LTS releases are places where we land software that is coming out
of upstreams and polish it for our users. Of course, I understand that
there is a bar of stability that we aim to achieve, and of course, I
understand that we've fallen short (way short, and this is my fault as
the maintainer of compiz) of that bar, however that's not to say that
progress must be made, hard decisions have to be taken etc.

I'm not going to try to provide justification for why things were done
the way they were during the N cycle. It was difficult for everyone,
most notably because the entire stack was completely rewritten from
the ground up.

Providing packages for users to use during the 'classic' session of
the 0.8.x release series of compiz is something that we could have
done. However, I believe that the burden here far outweighs the
benefits of switching to 0.9.x completely. Shipping packages for 0.8.x
would mean that we'd have to distro-patch all of compiz 0.9 or 0.8 to
provide separate binary names in the packages. It also breaks upgrade
paths when users are upgrading and they need to maintain two sets of
plugins for 0.8 and 0.9. Finally, when we want to remove compiz 0.8
from the system, there's no sane way in apt that we could replace it
without introducing artificial conflicts.

Additionally, I think that shipping the 0.8.x series would have had
far more wide reaching effects than just having to put in the effort
to maintain an outdated stack. First of all, like we saw with
distributions that shipped KDE4 and KDE3 simultaneously, KDE4 was the
victim of an immediate backlash and everyone reverted back to KDE3.
The result of this is that KDE4 got hardly any end user testing and
this seriously stifled the development of KDE, since the developers
didn't know what users priorities were in the bug reports. Now even
today, only now are people starting to get used to KDE again. But the
fact that users were given an option to "opt-out" of that testing
means that the KDE project was seriously crippled in being able to
determine its priorities.

I don't think that compiz 0.9.x would have matured so quickly in the
same way that it did during the N cycle if we didn't receive the same
amount of testing that we did. Being able to sift through all the bug
reports showed us the actual usage patterns of normal users and allows
the developers to address those problems. For example, I don't use any
Qt apps which use the system tray (not a fan of skype) and I surefire
would not have noticed this bug (which is a race condition in the way
reparenting works in compiz) had users not tested it.

The moral of the story here is that if we provide users the option to
run away from the problems, then the discourse turns from "solutions
are cre...

[Omer P. (omerp)]

Fair enough. Thanks, Sam, for taking the time to explain this.

(I also realize that the comments on a specific bug are a non-ideal place for this conversation, and I appreciate you addressing it here anyway.)

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Omer P. <email address hidden> wrote:
> Fair enough. Thanks, Sam, for taking the time to explain this.
>
> (I also realize that the comments on a specific bug are a non-ideal
> place for this conversation, and I appreciate you addressing it here
> anyway.)
>

It prompted me to write a blog post about it anyways, since I think
this issue is much larger than just in compiz.

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> Title:
>  1 pixel icons in notification-area-applet when compiz is the windows
>  manager
>
> Status in Desktop panel for GNOME:
>  New
> Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
>  New
> Status in Skype:
>  Invalid
> Status in Unity:
>  Fix Released
> Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
>  Fix Released
> Status in “eiskaltdcpp” package in Ubuntu:
>  Invalid
> Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu:
>  Invalid
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  Invalid
> Status in “compiz” source package in Natty:
>  Fix Committed
> Status in “eiskaltdcpp” source package in Natty:
>  Invalid
> Status in “gnome-panel” source package in Natty:
>  Invalid
> Status in “unity” source package in Natty:
>  Invalid
> Status in “compiz” source package in Oneiric:
>  Fix Released
> Status in “eiskaltdcpp” source package in Oneiric:
>  Invalid
> Status in “gnome-panel” source package in Oneiric:
>  Invalid
> Status in “unity” source package in Oneiric:
>  Invalid
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: gnome-panel
>
>
>  Install compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110531-0ubuntu1 from natty-proposed:
>  Test case:
>                  0) Use gnome-classic
>                  1) Open up qtdemo
>                  2) Navigate to Desktop -> Systray
>                  3) Run the demo
>                  4) The tray icon should appear and not be one px
>
>  I use gnome classic, not unity. Every time I open skype in notification area doesn't appear the skype's icon, only one green pixel!
>  See the image attached.
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: gnome-panel 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6.3
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
>  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>  Architecture: amd64
>  Date: Wed Apr 20 13:54:17 2011
>  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-panel/notification-area-applet
>  GConfNonDefault:
>   /apps/panel/general/applet_id_list=[applet_1,applet_0,indicator_applet_screen0,applet_2]
>   /apps/panel/general/object_id_list=[object_0,menu_bar_screen0,browser_launcher_screen0,object_1,object_2]
>   /apps/panel/general/toplevel_id_list=[top_panel_screen0]
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
>  ProcEnviron:
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>   LANGUAGE=it_IT:en
>   LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
>  SourcePackage: gnome-panel
>  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>

--
Sam Spilsbury

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1~natty1

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compiz (1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1~natty1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * New bug fix release:
    - Switcher window borders are not properly unmapped with
      (unity|gtk)-window-decorator (LP: #789580)
    - maximized window is displaced (LP: #772612)
    - Unity launcher gets visible while screensaver is active (LP: #771391)
    - 1 pixel icons in notification-area-applet when compiz is the windows
      manager (LP: #767095)
  * debian/patches/00_bzr_fix_apps_without_startupid.patch:
    - removed: upstream
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:23:26 +0200

[nakki (titibanjekistan)]

Yes, I confirm that compiz (1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1~natty1) natty-proposed solves the problem.