Background wallpaper briefly appears shifted horizontally by around 15 pixels on startup

[Florian Boucault]

When logging in the background wallpaper briefly appears shifted horizontally to the right by around 15 pixels. A grey-ish border is therefore briefly displayed on the left hand side of the desktop.

To reproduce it:
1. killall nautilus
2. nautilus -n

[Gerry Boland (gerboland)]

Bug reported upstream:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658906

This occurs under both Compiz and Metacity (compositing on & off).

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

Does it occur with Unity?

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

Chris Coulson believes that it is the same bug as bug #804435 for which a patch to GTK is underway.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-2d - 4.10.0-0ubuntu1

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unity-2d (4.10.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - unity-2d-panel segfault switching between single and dual screens
      (LP: #848944)
    - bad memory leak in unity-2d-panel (LP: #850320)
    - unity-2d-panel crashed with SIGABRT in raise() (LP: #848155)
    - [dash] Dash is shown when pressing and releasing quickly super+KEY
      (LP: #801073)
    - Wallpaper is loaded twice with different alignment by gnome-session and
      nautilus (Oneiric) (LP: #804435)
    - [panel] Maximized window title switches to Arial font (LP: #820274)
    - [panel] graphics corruption in top line of pixels (LP: #846335)
    - Unity-2d no panel after cancel logout due to not responding app
      (LP: #849379)
    - [panel] Indicators are duplicated if unity-panel-service restarts with
      multiple monitors connected (LP: #850000)
    - Unity doesn't mirror its interface for RTL locales. (LP: #654988)
    - [panel] F10 shortcut with dual screens shows menus on both screens
      (LP: #777995)
    - Background wallpaper briefly appears shifted horizontally by around 15
      pixels on startup (LP: #839610)
    - alt+f2 - can type, doing nothing (LP: #842413)
    - Pressing Alt+F2 sometimes opens the Dash instead of opening the 'Run
      command' screen (LP: #847486)
  * debian/control:
    - bump libxi-dev build-dep
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:55:59 +0200

[Lucazade (lucazade)]

I still see this bug.. the wallpaper now is shifted vertically when the top panel appears.

[Lucazade (lucazade)]

as comment #5
I still have this bug.. it is a fresh install with unity 5.0 from staging ppa.
ideas?

[Lucazade (lucazade)]

it shift to the bottom and not to the right like the OP

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Not happening in 12.04+