Comment 19 for bug 981168

unity --reset didn't help here either. However, after the session is
already broken, it fixes it.

Note: I also tried it from a clean USB live session and the problem is
there too.

2012/4/17 Stéphane Guillou <email address hidden>

> I tried "unity --reset" but I confirm that it didn't help.
>
> Why is it a SRU milestone? This really can't be in the final release.
>
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> Title:
> Regression: Installing apps causes a terrible visual glitch-- have to
> restart X.org.
>
> Status in Unity:
> Confirmed
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in “unity” source package in Precise:
> Confirmed
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” source package in Precise:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Installing any GUI app from the software center breaks the session
> with a visual glitch that hides everything. This is probably related
> to the new animation when installing apps (the icon flying to the
> Launcher), because it only happens when the Software Center is set to
> lock new apps to the Launcher.
>
> I believe this is really bad since this is going to be the default
> behavior.
>
> I'm on a Intel Graphics machine (lspci output attached)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
> Package: software-center 5.2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
> Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
> ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu2
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Apr 13 17:53:46 2012
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386
> (20120225)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
> TERM=xterm
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: software-center
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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