Remnants of context menu remain on screen

[Paul BROWN]

Not sure what we were doing at the time, possibly checking some bluetooth keyboards, when we noticed this problem. It was not "killable" with xkill. It seems there was some app open that has menus: Minimize, Maximize, Always On Top, Always on Visible Workspace, Only on This Workspace, Close. “Show menubar” can be seen beneath this. Anyway, this app seems to have closed or something, and left bits of itself on the screen. Unfortunately just not sure what was going on at that point.

1)
kayttaja@kiertokone:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04

2)
kayttaja@kiertokone:~$ sudo apt-cache policy xorg
[sudo] password for kayttaja:
xorg:
  Asennettu: 1:7.7+1ubuntu8
  Ehdokas: 1:7.7+1ubuntu8
  Versiotaulukko:
 *** 1:7.7+1ubuntu8 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) Expected window manager (or something) to remove all traces of dead app.

4) Traces of dead app left on the screen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Sep 18 11:31:04 2014
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2582] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0179]
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0179]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-12 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140722.2)
MachineType: Dell Inc. OptiPlex GX280
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fi
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-32-generic root=UUID=092e3914-a390-4403-8451-3e08a7666711 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 02/09/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A04
dmi.board.name: 0G8310
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA04:bd02/09/2005:svnDellInc.:pnOptiPlexGX280:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0G8310:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: OptiPlex GX280
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11.2+14.04.20140714-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
xserver.bootTime: Wed Sep 17 14:43:02 2014
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 16455
 vendor DEL
xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.1

[Paul BROWN (frozenzia)]

Screenshot showing the problem

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Paul BROWN, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. As per http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/optiplex-gx280/drivers an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available (A08). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything?

If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette .

Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't have to create a new bug report.

Once the BIOS is updated, and the information above is provided, then please mark this report Status New.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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