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[Marcus Haslam <marcus.haslam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On 2 May 2011, at 18:29, Josh Leverette <753144@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> Thats a lame reason. This is the first generation of unity for  
> desktop.
> Of course it will have limitations, but it is still a huge improvement
> on the old gnome desktop. Use a different notes app or ask around in  
> the
> ubuntu forums for a workaround on that, but that is the worst reason
> anyone has yet given.. and i've heard plenty of bad ones. This is the
> way forward for ubuntu, and it's better than gnome shell from what
> reviews have said in their comparisons.
>
> Sincerely,
> Josh
>
> On May 2, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Bruce Crowther  
> <753144@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> I give up on Unity, but not because of this bug.  This morning I  
> needed
> a phone number I had left on a sticky note on the desktop (using the
> Gnome Stickynote applet), so I had to logout and log back in in the
> classic desktop to read my note.
>
> And here I will stay, Ubuntu, Unity is a failed experiment in this
> house.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/753144
>
> 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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> Papercutters, which is subscribed to One Hundred Paper Cuts.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/753144
>
> 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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