Not 100% sure. Just installed natty week ago, and I mean the one that
was installed on it by default on my laptop. It looks like in the
sceenshots below:
http://bfiller.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/unity-2d/

Anyway, installed the updates from your ppm, and the flickering is not
there any more with your packages.



On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Omer Akram <email address hidden> wrote:
> are you using unity-2d or unity(3d) ? there is a bug in unity that
> causes the launcher to dance . I have unity in my ppa
> https://launchpad.net/~om26er/+archive/test which fixes the issue.
> please install it from the ppa and see if that resolves the issue.
>
> ** Changed in: unity-2d (Ubuntu)
>   Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: unity-2d (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/726151
>
> Title:
>  Unity launcher flickers
>
> Status in “unity-2d” package in Ubuntu:
>  Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: unity-2d-panel
>
>  I am using Unity that comes with the latest natty development branch
>  (as of 27.2.2011). Unity seems to be very unstable on my Acer aspire
>  5100 laptop (amd64 bit version). Most visible error is that launcher
>  keeps flickering on the left side of the desktop (coming and going
>  back and forth many times in a second).  This starts happening when I
>  just login with unity features enabled. Classic desktop seems to work
>  ok.
>
>  Often the graphics in the launcher are also garbled.
>
>  Feel free to ask more info, here are some basic info:
>  2.6.38-5-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 22 16:10:15 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>  X.Org X Server 1.9.99.902 (1.10.0 RC 2)
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: unity 3.4.6-0ubuntu1
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic x86_64
>  Architecture: amd64
>  CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,scale,session,unityshell]
>  CompositorRunning: None
>  DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
>   status: connected
>   enabled: enabled
>   dpms: On
>   modes: 1280x800 1280x720 1152x768 1024x768 800x600 848x480 720x480 640x480
>   edid-base64: AP///////wAyDADKAAAAAAAQAQOAIRV4CrNwmVlTjScjUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBthwAuFAgJTAgKEQAS88QAAAZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/gBMR1BoaWxpcHNMQ0QKAAAA/gBMUDE1NFcwMS1UTEQzACo=
>  DRM.card0.VGA.1:
>   status: disconnected
>   enabled: disabled
>   dpms: On
>   modes:
>   edid-base64:
>  Date: Sun Feb 27 20:50:49 2011
>  DistUpgraded: Yes, recently upgraded Log time: 2011-02-19 14:17:48.915479
>  DistroCodename: natty
>  DistroVariant: ubuntu
>  GraphicsCard:
>   ATI Technologies Inc M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300] [1002:7149] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>     Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:009f]
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
>  InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
>  InstallationMedia__: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
>  Lsusb:
>   Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>   Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>   Bus 001 Device 002: ID 5986:0100 Acer, Inc Orbicam
>   Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>  MachineType: Acer Aspire 5100
>  PccardctlIdent:
>   Socket 0:
>     no product info available
>  PccardctlStatus:
>   Socket 0:
>     no card
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-5-generic root=UUID=f31ca3b2-d73a-4803-a32d-72d92a7c934f ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
>  ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
>  ProcVersionSignature__: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
>  Renderer: Unknown
>  SourcePackage: unity
>  dmi.bios.date: 08/22/2008
>  dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
>  dmi.bios.version: V3.13
>  dmi.board.name: Navarro
>  dmi.board.vendor: Acer
>  dmi.board.version: N/A
>  dmi.chassis.type: 10
>  dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
>  dmi.chassis.version: N/A
>  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV3.13:bd08/22/2008:svnAcer:pnAspire5100:pvrV3.13:rvnAcer:rnNavarro:rvrN/A:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A:
>  dmi.product.name: Aspire 5100
>  dmi.product.version: V3.13
>  dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
>  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4-0ubuntu1
>  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu3
>  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.1~git20110215.cc1636b6-0ubuntu2
>  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu8
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu2
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-1ubuntu11
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu5
>
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