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[Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is pretty easily fixed in case anyone is interested, you just
need to premultiply the color values of the rect in the grid plugin by
the alpha value.

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Marco Biscaro
<marcobiscaro2112@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think this is a compiz bug. Anyway, marking as confirmed, since the
> color is really very bad (specially with dark wallpapers/themes).
>
> ** Package changed: unity (Ubuntu) => compiz (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Confirmed
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830110
>
> Title:
>  Horrifically bright "Aero Snap" color (grid plugin?)
>
> Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  When using Aero Snap (sorry, I don't know the official terminology for
>  Unity, this is the effect that happens when you move a window to the
>  sides or the top of the screen), I now get a horrendous goldish-yellow
>  color instead of the soft orange I used to get in Ubuntu Natty. This
>  color is painfully bright, to the point that it washes out everything
>  below it. I actually find myself looking away from the monitor when
>  moving a window to the sides, it's that bright. See the attached
>  screenshot!
>
>  This happens regardless of the graphics hardware or drivers (tested on
>  radeon, fgrlx, nouveau and nvidia) so it's apparently some
>  misconfiguration. It's obviously much worse on larger/brighter
>  monitors (esp. when using "movie" settings to watch a movie and you
>  try to drag-maximize the movie window).
>
>  Any ideas?
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
>  Package: unity 4.8.2-0ubuntu4
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
>  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
>  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>  .proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Είναι κατάλογος: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0'
>  .proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
>  .proc.driver.nvidia.version:
>   NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  280.13  Wed Jul 27 16:53:56 PDT 2011
>   GCC version:  gcc version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-7ubuntu1)
>  Architecture: amd64
>  BootLog:
>   fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
>   /dev/loop0: clean, 181857/1264800 files, 1227282/5054464 blocks
>   Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.bin.firefox
>  CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
>  CompositorRunning: compiz
>  Date: Sat Aug 20 18:38:49 2011
>  DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-08-20 15:08:02.679485
>  DistroCodename: oneiric
>  DistroVariant: ubuntu
>  DkmsStatus: nvidia-current-updates, 280.13, 3.0.0-8-generic, x86_64: installed
>  GraphicsCard: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] [10de:0640] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
>  JockeyStatus:
>   xorg:nvidia_173 - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
>   xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
>   kmod:nvidia_current_updates - nvidia_current_updates (Proprietary, Enabled, Not in use)
>  MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-770TA-UD3
>  ProcEnviron:
>   PATH=(custom, no user)
>   LANG=el_GR.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-8-generic root=UUID=FE50D27950D2385B loop=/hostname/disks/root.disk ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
>  SourcePackage: unity
>  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-20 (0 days ago)
>  dmi.bios.date: 05/13/2010
>  dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
>  dmi.bios.version: F3
>  dmi.board.name: GA-770TA-UD3
>  dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
>  dmi.board.version: x.x
>  dmi.chassis.type: 3
>  dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
>  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF3:bd05/13/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-770TA-UD3:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-770TA-UD3:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
>  dmi.product.name: GA-770TA-UD3
>  dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
>  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.5.0-0ubuntu5
>  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
>  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
>  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
>  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
>  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
>  version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
>  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu6
>  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1
>
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Sam Spilsbury

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  Horrifically bright "Aero Snap" color (grid plugin?)

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