Comment 266 for bug 99508

Could it be something to do with nvidia's OpenGL libraries? because that's
all that i can think of that would remain after a reinstall of the driver.

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Thor Marius K. Høgås <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> Per: Did you do a complete removal of the 180.06 driver or just an
> overwrite?
> Regardless, that seems like an interesting fact. I agree upon the theory
> that something wasn't removed/overwritten which does make the most sense.
>
> --
> Titlebar incorrectly drawn with geforce 5/6/7, compiz and human-theme
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99508
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>
> Status in "compiz" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in "human-theme" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in "nvidia-graphics-drivers-177" source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in compiz in Ubuntu Hardy: Invalid
> Status in human-theme in Ubuntu Hardy: Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-177 in Ubuntu Hardy: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> When compiz and human-theme are being used, the titlebar of windows often
> go completely grey, or partially grey (see screenshots). Moving the cursor
> over the buttons in the top right of the window will trigger the issue on
> affected systems.
>
> This affects all Geforce 5, 6 and 7 users with nvidia-glx-173 or -177. This
> issue appeared as a regression with 169.07, and has been fixed as of 180.06.
>
> More information at
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=104822 and
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=123072 .
>
> WORKAROUNDS:
> Change the titlebar of the Human theme (eg. to clearlooks)
> -or-
> Disable Compiz
> -or-
> Use the 180.06 or greater Nvidia driver
>
> SCREENSHOTS:
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19116675/glitch.png
> http://satfilm.net.pl/~gammaray/compiz_bug.png<http://satfilm.net.pl/%7Egammaray/compiz_bug.png>
>
> NOTE:
> Bug 186382 is an unrelated nvidia titlebar issue which looks like these:
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12535841/eclipse-titlebars.png
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11586392/gwd_drawing_problem.png
>