Panel Opacity for Maximized Windows Toggle: Inconsistent Behavior
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Unity |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This setting, "Panel Opacity for Maximized Windows Toggle" does not function completely. In most scenarios, maximization of a window does not change the opacity of the panel until a menu on the launcher is accessed or when the application itself modifies a menu, causing a redraw.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Set panel opacity to 0
2. Open an application
3. Maximize the application
Panel will still be transparent
4. access any menu on the panel
Panel will be opaque
Expected result:
Panel opacity should be set to a value of 1 immediately.
I will provide a few screen captures to demonstrate the issue. Note that I am using multiple monitors during the capture, but this issue happens regardless of the amount of monitors in use. I use multiple only a fraction of the time and this issue is present throughout my use of the machine under these settings.
It does seem that different applications are more likely to cause this issue. For example, it occurs nearly 100% of the time while maximizing Chrome. Regardless of application, this should be considered a bug because of the nature of applications on a Linux system. We cannot expect that only specific applications that do not trigger this issue will be in use on any given system. Instead, we need to use a more universal method for triggering the redraw of the panel. The action of maximizing any window, controlled by the window manager, should trigger this event.
Changed in unity: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in unity: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
That is not an issue for me on a fully updated machine. Could you mention which GPU and driver you are using, also are you fully updated?