unity window scale plugin artifacts on window borders

[Santiago Roland]

when pressing Crtl+W for window scale plugin, those windows being updated, like firefox downloads and stuff appears with incomplete and intermitent window borders decoration... i was able to capture this in a screenshot, see it. The window in the right has a partial rendered window border. HP 6735s laptop AMD Turion RM-72, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, ATI Radeon HD3200 with opensource ATI driver.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.24.0-0ubuntu2b1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,snap,regex,compiztoolbox,grid,move,imgpng,unitymtgrabhandles,animation,place,vpswitch,resize,wall,gnomecompat,session,fade,expo,ezoom,workarounds,scale,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Tue Nov 1 01:28:42 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: bcmwl, 5.100.82.38+bdcom, 3.0.0-12-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard:
 ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] [1002:9612] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30e4]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq 6735s
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=c3d1c337-2943-48d7-b8af-93cf1d47054c ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 09/14/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68GPP Ver. F.0E
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 30E4
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 94.20
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU916223Y
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68GPPVer.F.0E:bd09/14/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPCompaq6735s:pvrF.0E:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn30E4:rvrKBCVersion94.20:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP Compaq 6735s
dmi.product.version: F.0E
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu5
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

thanks for your bug report. Is that still an issue in Ubuntu 12.04? Can you please test that and let us know?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 865696, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.