Notifications appear bright blue instead of cameleonic like the launcher

Bug #934425 reported by Pavol Klačanský
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #929425: Background colour bright blue. Edit Remove
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This bug affects 22 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Notify OSD
New
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Unity
New
Undecided
Unassigned
notify-osd (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Mirco Müller

Bug Description

Upon upgrading to Unity 5.4, the notification bubbles, which should begin to use the same cameleonic color as the launcher and dash instead uses a bright blue color.

ORIGINAL REPORT:
Hi, I played with this wallpaper color matching and I got this :) [See attached screenshot at the top of Comment 1.]

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: notify-osd 0.9.33-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-16.25-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 17 19:00:36 2012
GtkTheme: Ambiance
IconTheme: ubuntu-mono-dark
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MachineType: LENOVO 208253G
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.2.0-16-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.6+10ubuntu1
 libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0~rc2-0ubuntu5
 libdrm2 2.4.30-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
SourcePackage: notify-osd
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-17 (0 days ago)
WindowManager: No value set for `/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager'
dmi.bios.date: 05/15/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6FET71WW (3.01 )
dmi.board.name: 208253G
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6FET71WW(3.01):bd05/15/2009:svnLENOVO:pn208253G:pvrThinkPadT500:rvnLENOVO:rn208253G:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 208253G
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T500
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
setxkbmap:
 Error: command ['xkbcomp', ':0', '-w0', '-'] failed with exit code 1: Error: Cannot open display ":0"
                   Exiting

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Pavol Klačanský (pavolzetor-deactivatedaccount) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Jonathan Meek (shroudedcloud) wrote :

Same deal, I marked my own bug as duplicate, but it has my system info.

summary: - color does not fit with wallpaper
+ Notifications appear bright blue instead of cameleonic like the launcher
description: updated
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Jonathan Meek (shroudedcloud) wrote :

@pavolzetor: please try switching your wallpaper to something else and see if it uses the new look, if it does, before switching back to your old wallpaper, restart your system to "fix" the issue. If it still persists, leave this bug open, if not, please close the bug.

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Jonathan Meek (shroudedcloud) wrote :

Scratch the above comment: switching walls resulted in a uniform black-ish texture used no matter which wall was on and restarting did nothing. Still getting a blue bubble with my current wallpaper.

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Pavol Klačanský (pavolzetor-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Why should I restart my system? I do not understand

There are only 2 background which cause this problem.

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Jonathan Meek (shroudedcloud) wrote :

@pavolzetor: sorry, disregard that comment.

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Conrad Steenberg (conrad-steenberg) wrote :

For me this happens with Unity2D

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laan (kontakt-andreaslang) wrote :

Seems to deal with the vertical size of background-image. Backgrounds with height smaller than 1300 px result in blue OSD-notification-backgrounds – may this be a starting point to solve the issue?

Best wishes

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Mirco Müller (macslow)
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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

I have seen this on Unity 2D over the last 24 hours, but it's disappeared as of the present. Validated with:

  notify-send 'hello world'

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

note that is happens with "wild wheat" in the default wallpapers set

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Gerry Boland (gerboland) wrote :

The background color used by notify-osd is set in dconf. Can you run this command and print the result here please:

gsettings get com.canonical.Unity average-bg-color

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Conrad Steenberg (conrad-steenberg) wrote :

For me it gives #757550507B7BFFFF

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Jonathan Meek (shroudedcloud) wrote :

On one of the walls that gives me blue, I get #1f1e0753fead

On "Wild Wheat" I get #23d60959ffb8

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arpanaut (johnmac) wrote :

I can confirm that the image height (size) does make a difference in behavior.
If the image height is larger than 1300 px then yes the display is as expected

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Conrad Steenberg (conrad-steenberg) wrote :

FWIW the background image size makes no difference here, tried images between 195 and 1920 px high.
This is on Ubuntu2D, 1440x900 display with NVIDIA binary drivers.

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Conrad Steenberg (conrad-steenberg) wrote :

Update: after an update and reboot 2 hours ago the background is now black.

I also noticed that the average-bg-color is doesn't change when the background image is changed.

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Gerry Boland (gerboland) wrote :

@Conrad: initial release of the background-color feature set the default incorrectly, it should be a 12 character hex string. The "FFFF" at the end is bad.

If you run
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity average-bg-color "#757550507B7"
then at least you'll not get horrible blue any more.

Unity2D does not set this value for you yet.

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Francis De Brabandere (francisdb) wrote :

is this a duplicate of #929425 ?

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