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indicator-appmenu package

Indicator Applet Appmenu flashes white when changing applications.

Bug #664614 reported by Matthew Pirocchi on 2010-10-21

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #687567: Global menu causes white "flashes" when scrubbing/moving with mouse fast over menus. Edit Remove

This bug affects 13 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Application Menu Indicator	Confirmed	Low	Unassigned
	indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: indicator-application

When switching between applications, the menu entries that change in the global menu briefly flash white before changing. This happens about ~50% of the time.

See video for example (it happens two or three times near the end of the video).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: indicator-application 0.2.9-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic-pae 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 21 12:56:18 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-application

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Matthew Pirocchi (matthew-pirocchi) wrote on 2010-10-21:

output.ogv Edit (1.0 MiB, video/ogg)
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
indicator-applet-appmenu.log.txt Edit (6.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
indicator-applet-complete.log.txt Edit (950 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
indicator-applet-session.log.txt Edit (245 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
indicator-applet.log.txt Edit (508 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

summary:

- Indicator Applet Appmenu flashing white when changing applications.
+ Indicator Applet Appmenu flashes white when changing applications.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2011-01-21

affects:	indicator-application (Ubuntu) → indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu)
Changed in indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2011-02-09:

Could you try if that's still an issue in natty? What videocard do you use? Do you run GNOME or unity?

Kalle Valo (kvalo) on 2011-02-23

Changed in indicator-appmenu:
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Matthew Pirocchi (matthew-pirocchi) wrote on 2011-02-26:

I have been unable to install Natty Alpha 2 on my laptop. I will try again during Alpha 3 or beta.

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Matthew Pirocchi (matthew-pirocchi) wrote on 2011-03-05:

Still happens in Alpha 3 in "Ubuntu Classic Desktop" but not in Unity. I have a ATI Mobility RADEON HD 4670.

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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote on 2011-03-29:

Happens here too with appmenu on gnome-panel using Intel graphics.

This white flash was there since the earliest introduction of the appmenu.

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pablomme (pablomme) wrote on 2011-04-07:

Is this not the same issue as bug #687567? If so, this should be marked a duplicate of it (the other bug report has grown larger and has more activity than this one).

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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote on 2011-04-08:

g-p-flashes.gif Edit (342.5 KiB, image/gif)

I get flashes on an indicator-appmenu loaded in a gnome-panel whenever the menu changes to a horizontally longer menu.

This might have to do with gnome-panel and the variable length of the appmenu applet. So dunno if it’s a dupe.

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pablomme (pablomme) wrote on 2011-04-08:

Ah, I understood this bug wrong. It's a the menu entries flashing white, the other bug is concerned with the menus themselves flashing white. Might be for the same reason, but these should definitely be different bug reports.

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matan (mzruya) wrote on 2011-04-10:

confirming the bug, using a macbook pro 13.3 with nvidia 9400m
most updated natty build

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Roel van Os (roel-van-os) wrote on 2011-04-11:

#10

I see this too, with up-to-date Natty in "Ubuntu Classic Desktop"; Intel 945G integrated graphics.

Mike Basinger (mike.basinger) on 2011-04-29

Changed in indicator-appmenu:
status:	New → Confirmed
Changed in indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Scott Dollins (sdollins) wrote on 2011-05-04:

#11

This is still happening on 11.04. Did a clean install last night and it's up to date.

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pelle.k (pele2) wrote on 2011-07-13:

#12

I second Scotts comment, 11.04 running gnome classic, and the "indicator applet application menu" obviously. Tried both with and without the metacity compositor, and compiz running. I should also note that the reason i added this "global menu" to the panel in the first place was because i noticed a brief redraw of the menu (bar) in the actual application window menu after a new window had been created, so i figured it wouldn't do that if i put it in the panel instead. Might have something to do with how this is implemented (read patched) in GTK/Metacity, i suppose.
Either way, i use a MBP 8,1 (13 inch), so that would be a sandy bridge intel HD 3000 GPU AFAIK.