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Launcher "forgets" to hide (especially when using Opera)

Bug #741193 reported by cmyrland on 2011-03-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #741731: Launcher unhides and stays unhidden when dragging elements in Opera. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: unity

The Launcher often either doesn't hide at all, or suddenly pops back into view when using Opera Web Browser. When the bug appears I fix it by opening TomBoy and dragging the window over the Launcher. Then it suddenly pops back to life and hides again, even for Opera and other apps. Sometimes it also becomes "solid", as in "not transparent" until I drag tomboy over it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.6.6-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.38-generic-pae 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
DRM.card0.DP.1:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.DP.2:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.HDMI.A.1:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
status: connected
enabled: enabled
dpms: On
modes: 1366x768
edid-base64: AP///////wAw5PcBAAAAAAATAQOAHRB4Cu4llVlViykiUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBPhxWoFAAFjAwIDUAJaUQAAAZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/gAAAABMR0Rpc3BsYXkKAAAA/gBMUDEzM1dIMi1UTEEzAMI=
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
Date: Wed Mar 23 20:10:38 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0229]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0229]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110317)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110317)
InstallationMedia__: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110317)
MachineType: Acer Aspire 3810T
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=nb_NO:en
LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-7-generic-pae root=UUID=3704c4df-44b8-4361-abda-cca0b2131a03 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.38-generic-pae 2.6.38
ProcVersionSignature__: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.38-generic-pae 2.6.38
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 03/26/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: V1.27
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Aspire 3810T
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: PSMBOU-1234567
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: None
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV1.27:bd03/26/2010:svnAcer:pnAspire3810T:pvrV1.27:rvnAcer:rnAspire3810T:rvrPSMBOU-1234567:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrNone:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 3810T
dmi.product.version: V1.27
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4git20110322-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu5
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.1-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu11
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu6

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cmyrland (carl-rahien) wrote on 2011-03-23:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (46.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (3.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DRM.card0.SVIDEO.1.txt Edit (108 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (36.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog.txt Edit (18.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog1.txt Edit (18.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog2.txt Edit (18.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (12.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (549 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (719 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (110.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (268.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UnitySupportTest.txt Edit (997 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (27.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (28.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (4.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
peripherals.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (9.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2011-03-24:

Have you tried this with unity 3.6.8? Could reproduce it with the newer version? I grabbed and installed opera and have been using it for a bit over two hours and didn't run into the described problems. Could very well be, that this is already fixed in the newer version of unity.

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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cmyrland (carl-rahien) wrote on 2011-04-02:

I think I've discovered the cause. If you grab and drag content on a page in Firefox, the launcher appears (I guess for adding pictures to Shotwell, copying text to gedit or whatev.) I think the same happens on Opera, but some bug between launcher and opera causes the launcher to crash (at least partly) if no content is dropped onto it. Could somebody try to verify this?