I left my computer on overnight.  I usually find it is caused by
leaving the computer idle for some time.  The screen saver or power
save for the monitor turns on and then when I unlock it is in that
state.

--
Keith A. Prickett


On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
> what do you do to get in that state?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/806248
>
> Title:
>  Launcher icons are all rendered up in top left corner
>
> Status in Unity:
>  Incomplete
> Status in unity 4.0 series:
>  Confirmed
> Status in unity 5.0 series:
>  Incomplete
> Status in unity 6.0 series:
>  Incomplete
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  This issue, to me, is the same issue as
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/762478.  However
>  a poster on their thinks this is only related to the nvidia graphics
>  driver.  I tend to disagree, nonelethess I am filing a new bug for it.
>  The behavior is the same.  The icons are not showing up in the Unity
>  launcher.  When I hover over them I can read the icon's "name" and
>  clicking on it works.  I tried unity --reset, unity --reset-icons,
>  sudo restart gdm and finally only resetting my entire system fixed the
>  issue (although the icons are back to their default now -- none of my
>  custom icons are appearing).  I do not have an NVIDIA graphics card,
>  but rather, a built-in Intel one.
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: unity 3.8.16-0ubuntu1~natty1
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
>  Architecture: amd64
>  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
>  CurrentDmesg:
>   [   29.030016] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>   [   37.298652] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=0
>   [   85.910008] CE: hpet2 increased min_delta_ns to 7500 nsec
>   [   85.910015] CE: hpet2 increased min_delta_ns to 11250 nsec
>   [   85.910018] hrtimer: interrupt took 3365 ns
>  Date: Tue Jul  5 16:29:05 2011
>  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
>  DistroCodename: natty
>  DistroVariant: ubuntu
>  GraphicsCard:
>   Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2e12] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>     Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0420]
>     Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0420]
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
>  InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
>  InstallationMedia__: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
>  MachineType: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 780
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
>   PATH=(custom, user)
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=ebecbd9e-5adf-43ce-bc96-964abb961f59 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
>  ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
>  ProcVersionSignature__: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
>  Renderer: Unknown
>  SourcePackage: unity
>  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>  dmi.bios.date: 11/03/2010
>  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
>  dmi.bios.version: A06
>  dmi.board.name: 0C27VV
>  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
>  dmi.board.version: A02
>  dmi.chassis.type: 6
>  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
>  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd11/03/2010:svnDellInc.:pnOptiPlex780:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0C27VV:rvrA02:cvnDellInc.:ct6:cvr:
>  dmi.product.name: OptiPlex 780
>  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
>  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1~natty2
>  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu13
>  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
>  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
>  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
>  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
>  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3.1
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7.1
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7
>
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