A visual glitch appears on the panel if an application is not responding

[Pablo Almeida]

Everytime a windowed application is not responding and turns gray, there's a visual glitch on Ubuntu's upper panel. This is reproducible to the state that I can make an application to turn gray when not responding, but it doesn't work with the only application that I can make freeze on purpose-- the Software Sources (by taking too long to type the password). The application which causes it the most in this computer (which is by no means high end) is the Software Updater, since it pops up everyday and when it loads lots of updates (as it usually do everyday), it turns gray a little while.

[Stéphane Guillou (stephane-guillou)]

Is this glitch a line at the bottom of the panel, blinking and letting you see the wallpaper?
Do you have a screenshot you can attach?

[Pablo Almeida (pabloalmeidaff9)]

Yes, the glitch is exactly like that-- a blinking transparent line. No, I
don't have a screenshot right now, but I'll attach one as soon as possible.

2012/11/1 Stéphane Guillou <email address hidden>

> Is this glitch a line at the bottom of the panel, blinking and letting you
> see the wallpaper?
> Do you have a screenshot you can attach?
>
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> Title:
> A visual glitch appears on the panel if an application is not
> responding
>
> Status in “unity-lens-files” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Everytime a windowed application is not responding and turns gray,
> there's a visual glitch on Ubuntu's upper panel. This is reproducible
> to the state that I can make an application to turn gray when not
> responding, but it doesn't work with the only application that I can
> make freeze on purpose-- the Software Sources (by taking too long to
> type the password). The application which causes it the most in this
> computer (which is by no means high end) is the Software Updater,
> since it pops up everyday and when it loads lots of updates (as it
> usually do everyday), it turns gray a little while.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-files/+bug/1066002/+subscriptions
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Pablo Almeida
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[Stéphane Guillou (stephane-guillou)]

@Pablo

Ok. I have a similar problem, that I reported in Bug #1072535

What mode do you have the launcher on? The other part of the problem I reported is that, in auto-hide mode, the launcher doesn't 'realise' the pointer is still on it, and it hides and reveals uncontrollably. Can you check if you have the same problem? Because I found those two issues often happened at the same time.

You can see a video on my bug report.

[Pablo Almeida (pabloalmeidaff9)]

Yes, Stéphane-- what you described in your bug report is exactly what
happens here. I didn't report the bug about the misbehaviour of the
launcher because I thought it was because my computer is not really
expected to run Ubuntu well and because I wasn't able to reproduce it, but
the two things happen here. I think you should open a new bug report for
each problem, though.

2012/11/1 Stéphane Guillou <email address hidden>

> @Pablo
>
> Ok. I have a similar problem, that I reported in Bug #1072535
>
> What mode do you have the launcher on? The other part of the problem I
> reported is that, in auto-hide mode, the launcher doesn't 'realise' the
> pointer is still on it, and it hides and reveals uncontrollably. Can you
> check if you have the same problem? Because I found those two issues
> often happened at the same time.
>
> You can see a video on my bug report.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1066002
>
> Title:
> A visual glitch appears on the panel if an application is not
> responding
>
> Status in “unity-lens-files” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Everytime a windowed application is not responding and turns gray,
> there's a visual glitch on Ubuntu's upper panel. This is reproducible
> to the state that I can make an application to turn gray when not
> responding, but it doesn't work with the only application that I can
> make freeze on purpose-- the Software Sources (by taking too long to
> type the password). The application which causes it the most in this
> computer (which is by no means high end) is the Software Updater,
> since it pops up everyday and when it loads lots of updates (as it
> usually do everyday), it turns gray a little while.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-files/+bug/1066002/+subscriptions
>

--
Pablo Almeida
http://www.google.com/profiles/pabloalmeidaff9

[Stéphane Guillou (stephane-guillou)]

Great - good to know I'm not the only one with this problem :)
It would be good to see what hardware you have. I'm not sure how to do that though.

By the way, why did you choose "unity-lens-files" as the affected package?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Pablo Almeida (pabloalmeidaff9)]

Chaning a mistake on the affected package.

[Pablo Almeida (pabloalmeidaff9)]

@Stéphane I have already attached my lspci output to the bug report (it's on the bug's attachments). That's what I was taught I should do when reporting a bug that might be hardware-specific.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Pablo,

Please provide a video or screenshot of them problem.

I suspect it's the same problem or at least the same fix as bug 1070735.

[Pablo Almeida (pabloalmeidaff9)]

Hello. Sorry for taking that long.

Here's a screenshot of the bug in action. I also suspect it's the same bug you're talking about.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Yes the screenshot looks like it might be solved with the fix for bug 1070735, in Unity 6.12 which is coming soon...
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Actually, this bug was fixed as bug 1070735. Sorry I didn't relate the two earlier.