Icons leave a trail of shadows with compositing effects enabled

[Rüdiger Kupper]

Oneiric, Unity 2d

When compositing effects are enabled in metacity, icons dragged around the desktop leave a trail of shadows (i.e., the icon's shadow is not correctly erased at the last position but stays on the desktop), until the icon is dropped.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: metacity 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.29-generic 3.0.20
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 25 11:43:38 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
SourcePackage: metacity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-02-24 (29 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

Still present in precise.

[aaulia (aaulia)]

Any news about this

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

The latest news is that it's still present. I'm sorry I can't provide a screenshot, I'll try and make a photograph.

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

This is still present in quantal.
A screenshot can be seen in Bug #1015268 (thanks to Jochen Fahrner).

[Keith Goddard (fischerking1905)]

This "effect" can be turned off. Open gconf-editor then go to apps > metacity > general > then untick compositor_effects.
Then it goes away.

[Jochen Fahrner (jofa)]

Keith, that is no workaround!!!
This way you loose transparency, shadows and all those things!

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

This is still present in raring :-(.
That's two releases of Ubuntu that did not even try to address this ugly problem. It leaves a bad impression on users, especially those coming here from "alternative" OSes, (where they got used to have graphics "just work").
("Did you see this stupid -- whatsitcalled? -- You Buntu? It leaves black traces on the desktop when I move an icon *lol*!)

[Aritchie (aritchie)]

Ubuntu 12.04.5
metacity 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu11
unity-2d 5.14.0-0ubuntu2

When dragging operation is started, an a black box is drawn around the icon and leaves a trail behind it. I could only capture the black box but not the trail with gnome-screenshot. Also it leaves artifacts with tooltips. Windows with shadows are not effected however.

[dino99 (9d9)]

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