Opacity of notify-osd bubbles doesn't decrease correctly on hover in metacity

[Chris Coulson]

Hovering the pointer over notify-osd bubbles whilst running the unity-2d session (metacity + compositing) doesn't cause the opacity to decrease correctly anymore, although they do seem to blur on hover. I've attached a screencast of the issue, which shows the opacity beginning to decrease as the pointer approaches the bubble, but then it appears to reverse again and the opacity returns to normal by the time the pointer is positioned over the notification.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: notify-osd 0.9.32-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 19 12:06:37 2011
GtkTheme: Ambiance
IconTheme: ubuntu-mono-dark
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6410
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-11-generic root=UUID=b2e419c9-361b-45c5-8964-3ee8ca387122 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
 libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: notify-osd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
WindowManager: No value set for `/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager'
dmi.bios.date: 02/15/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A07
dmi.board.name: 04373Y
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A03
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA07:bd02/15/2011:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6410:pvr0001:rvnDellInc.:rn04373Y:rvrA03:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6410
dmi.product.version: 0001
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

As discussed on IRC, I've not yet been able to reproduce this with compiz or metacity (+compositor). It will need further investigation what's happening on your side. I've assigned myself and put it on "Ubuntu later" milestone as we're currently still very busy with bug-fixing for unity on Oneiric.

[gdi2k (gdi2k)]

I have this issue too on a Lenovo X200 laptop with integrated graphics. If there is anything I can do to help or test, please let me know.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Just to follow up, this is still the case under unity-2d (metacity) with compositor-effects (in gconf /apps/metacity/general) _disabled_.

[Teo (teo1978)]

In my case, I think this bug disappeared when I changed from Unity2D to Unity3D.
So either it has been fixed (which I doubt) or it only affects Unity2D.

[John Pye (jdpipe)]

Also present in Ubuntu 12.04, with metacity and unity-2d.