Significant screen tearing when using Thunderbird

[Jono Bacon]

When using Thunderbird in Oneiric on an Intel graphics card in Unity 3D, I am seeing significant screen tearing. This happens when I click to the respond to an email and the reply window appears. The tearing looks like it does in the attached screenshot. I have smudged out email addresses.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: compiz 1:0.9.5.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.9-generic 3.0.0
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unitydialog,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Mon Aug 8 13:30:09 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-07-13 12:27:27.246539
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 virtualbox, 4.0.10, 2.6.38-10-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox, 4.0.10, 3.0.0-5-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox, 4.0.10, 3.0.0-6-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox, 4.0.10, 3.0.0-7-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox, 4.0.10, 3.0.0-8-generic, i686: installed
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:20e4]
   Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:20e4]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110202)
MachineType: LENOVO 7417CTO
PackageArchitecture: all
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-7-generic root=UUID=70dfeb40-de6f-4ce0-9058-9ba257c3facd ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-13 (25 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/26/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7UET81WW (3.11 )
dmi.board.name: 7417CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7UET81WW(3.11):bd11/26/2009:svnLENOVO:pn7417CTO:pvrThinkPadT400:rvnLENOVO:rn7417CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 7417CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T400
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.5.0-0ubuntu2
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.0-3ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

[Jono Bacon (jonobacon)]

Just talked to smsplillaz on IRC and he thinks it might be a Compiz issue, but is not sure. He will check into it.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Yeah, I've seen this in other applications as well. It seems to affect apport-gtk, empathy and gwibber fairly badly here, but you're the second person who reported the same issue in thunderbird too. I've also seen a similar issue to your screenshot, but also with the window frame drawn on the wrong part of the screen

[Jono Bacon (jonobacon)]

Is there anything I can do to help with this bug?

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Is this still an issue on an up-to-date version of 11.10? Does this also affect Firefox?

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