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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote : semi-random invisible window with x geometry on top layer possible, one viewport only

Binary package hint: unity

On 2 separate machines w/ updated as of 1/28 -

On rare occasions a window will open in the top left corner with top deco buried. The most likely for this to happen is a utility window like update manager.
After pulling back down into the desktop (Alt+click) it may or may not show some graphical distortion (window split in 2 parts), if so it returns to normal if opening any other window.

What does appear to happen is an invisible window is created in the area where it was pulled down to, this only happens on the current workspace, any others are unaffected

Attached xwininfo - first shows on affected workspace, 2nd when switching to another and clicking in same spot

Note that this does not always happen, I'm thinking the 'buried' window may need to show some distorttion, not sure yet

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.2.16-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.27-generic 2.6.38-rc2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 173.14.28 Wed Sep 29 09:47:25 PDT 2010
 GCC version: gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-2ubuntu1)
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan 28 14:36:27 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 nvidia-current, 260.19.29, 2.6.37-12-generic, i686: installed
 nvidia-current, 260.19.29, 2.6.38-1-generic, i686: installed
 nvidia-173, 173.14.28, 2.6.37-12-generic, i686: installed
 nvidia-173, 173.14.28, 2.6.38-1-generic, i686: installed
GraphicsCard: Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0209]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110120)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110120)
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS M1330
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-1-generic root=UUID=28d68c1b-9e85-45a3-9ec2-ad4f992ba387 ro
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.27-generic 2.6.38-rc2
SourcePackage: unity
dmi.bios.date: 12/26/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A15
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd12/26/2008:svnDellInc.:pnXPSM1330:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: XPS M1330
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10-1ubuntu1
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu8
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.2+git20110124.fadee040-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu1