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["Sam \"SmSpillaz\" Spilsbury" <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Doug McMahon <709461@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>  I'm now stalled w/ nvidia  having no 3d option if i upgrade X so the validity of any observations may now or shortly be questionable.
>> There is here a variation of this behavior where some apps will, at 'random', open with no app window visible. In this scenario there is no 'unknown' invisible window present, just the unseen app. (xwininfo will identify the app
>>
>> While not solely confined to, the most likely time this occurs is when
>> there is a popup associated with the app, either typically or thru
>> present circumstance. ( for instance update manager when there is a
>> partial update popup
>>
>> In all these cases running compiz --replace restores function and
>> exposes the window
>
> Indeed. The bug is that the window is being tracked initially and then
> untracked soon afterwards. Restarting compiz forces all windows to be
> tracked again.

BTW, you can see this behaviour if you use xwininfo -all on the
"invisible" window, you will see that the parent window is the root
window. I'm currently looking into this now, but it is difficult
considering how hard it is to reproduce

>
>>
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/709461
>>
>> Title:
>>  semi-random invisible window with x geometry on top layer possible,
>>  all viewport only (one ws though)
>>
>> Status in Unity:
>>  Triaged
>> Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
>>  Triaged
>> Status in “compiz” source package in Natty:
>>  Triaged
>>
>> Bug description:
>>  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
>>
>>
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> Sam Spilsbury
>


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Title:
  semi-random invisible window with x geometry on top layer possible,
  all viewport only (one ws though)