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[Marcus Haslam <marcus.haslam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm out of the office until 1st August.

On 2 May 2011, at 10:15, Bruno <753144@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have to agree with Josh.
>
> I did install 173, and Unity was working fine, so I decided to try out
> Gnome 3, and it was a total catastrophe, under 173. The content of the
> windows was not updating properly, so I was stuck with a computer that
> "seemed" blocked, untill I realized it was only a matter of freezing
> windows (Icould see the windows "moving" when I saw them as thumbnails
> only.
>
> So, all in all, I uninstalled Gnome 3, reinstalled the latest nvidia
> driver, forget 173, and went back to Gnome 2.
>
> The point of the matter is that, in my opinion (I have Unity in  
> another
> machine), Unity is not worth the learning curve to get it to work at
> least as good as gnome 2 was. Maybe if, one day, there is a new nvidia
> driver that solves this problem, I will try it again.
>
> For the time being, I feel I have wasted enough time trying to solve a
> problem that simply is not worth it.
>
> BTW, maybe in that new driver, nvidia will get a way to change the
> brightness of the monitor when I disconnet it from AC.
>
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>
> Title:
>  focused, or maximized windows blank
>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  Invalid
> Status in NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
> Status in Unity:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: compiz
>
>  I have discovered a fairly consistent behavior: When multiple
>  aplications are open, the bug can manifest itself as: the active
>  window is blank (white in my case... title bar displays but nothing
>  else.) while windows behind it will display content. If one of the
>  unfocused windows is selected, it gains focus, and goes blank. The
>  previously blank window, no longer focused, regains its content and  
> is
>  no longer blank.
>
>  Switching between applications, the ones gaining focus always going
>  blank only to regain content after losing focus is quite infuriating.
>
>  To force an application to quit being blank, another application is
>  opened, and applications are switched until the blanking behavior
>  begins for the new application. (I use terminal as my dummy app...)
>  Terminal is given focus, observed to be blank, and closed. The
>  aplication which was behind the dummy application gains focus, and
>  does not go blank. (this has been verified in classic desktop, not  
> yet
>  in unity)
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: compiz 1:0.9.4git20110322-0ubuntu5
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
>  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
>  Architecture: i386
>  CompizPlugins:  
> [core 
> ,bailer 
> ,detection 
> ,composite 
> ,opengl 
> ,compiztoolbox 
> ,decor 
> ,place 
> ,vpswitch 
> ,regex 
> ,gnomecompat 
> ,mousepoll 
> ,imgpng 
> ,move 
> ,snap 
> ,resize,grid,scale,wall,session,animation,expo,ezoom,staticswitcher]
>  Date: Wed Apr  6 21:40:19 2011
>  DistroCodename: natty
>  DistroVariant: ubuntu
>  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386  
> (20101007)
>  InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386  
> (20101007)
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
>  SourcePackage: compiz
>  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-05 (1 days ago)
>  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.1-0ubuntu3
>  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu1

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  focused, or maximized windows blank

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