blinking app-indication area with Ubuntu 22.04

[Robert Orso]

After updating 21.10 to 22.04 the app-indicator starts "blinking" as if the positions of the indicators constantly have to be redrawn.

Hovering the mouse over the multiload indicator shows a menu that is constantly changing size and position.

Closing the app removes the indicator and the indicator area stays calm again.

[krboswell (krboswell)]

I'm experiencing the same issue after upgrading from 21.10.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sicco van Sas (sicco)]

Might be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-multiload/+bug/1974063

[Dženan Zukić (dzenanz)]

I have the same problem after upgrade from 20.04.

[msbutton (msbutton)]

22.04 same

[Sebastian Byczkowski (s-byczkowski)]

Same with me. This also causes terminal windows to go out of foreground, so when typing passwords you literally can't input the password correctly in terminal windows.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell-extension-appindicator - 53-1

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gnome-shell-extension-appindicator (53-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * appIndicator: Wait for style change if no stage is set
  * appIndicator: Reuse already imported namespaces
  * appIndicator Use Clutter to load RGBA Pixmap textures natively
  * appIndicator: Simplify loading of custom image files (LP: #784055, #1973358)
  * dbusMenu: Use more dbus async methods
  * interfaces-xml: Comment out the signal definitions (avoids gjs signals)
  * dbusMenu: Do not update menu items while the menu is closed
  * Util: Do not recreate the default theme each time
  * appIndicator: Only update icon size when it matters
  * appIndicator: Only perform updating actions if we're fully ready
  * appIndicator: Ensure St.Icon loading icon size matches theme and preferences
  * appIndicator: return the previous GIcon if something failed
  * appIndicator: Refactor named icons lookup and loading
  * appIndicator: Use correct update frequency on signals accumulator
  * appIndicator: Ensure that property emissions are queued together
  * dbusMenu: Use cancellable's to handle subsequent requests
  * dbusMenu: Populate menus in chunked idles
  * statusNotifierWatcher: Properly handle null services
  * dbusUtil: Filter introspectable bus by interfaces if provided
  * dbusUtils: Use more reasonable timeout for introspection
  * util: Use a recursive async generator to get introspection results
  * statusNotifierWatcher: Remove idle promise on bus seeking
  * debian/patches: Drop applied upstream

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Mon, 13 Mar 2023 20:21:32 +0100

[Steven Gundersen (scg132)]

I updated to 22.04 from 20.04 a few days ago and this bug is still present.