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[Mike O'Reilly <2115005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I inplace-upgraded my desktop computer from ubuntu desktop 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS and then to 24.04.2 LTS.
After this completed, gedit was gone and I had gnome-text-editor version 46.3 .

I pinned this to the dash and launch it from there.
The computer has an nvidia graphics card, prior to upgrade it was using the nvidia driver v470.


When I use a menu item that opens a popup window, sometimes the texts for the controls on those popup windows are blank, and either temporarily appear on scroll/select before disappearing again, or stay populated when clicked.

For example hamburger-menu > Preferences will show a window that has
some controls outlined, radio-buttons , but no text. If I scroll the
right-hand-side slider down, some of the text for radio-button items
will appear (but not all) and will shortly disappear again after a
couple of seconds if I wait. If I "mouse-over" some of the blank radio-
button items, the text appears and sticks (i.e. does not disappear). For
the top of the preferences window the "Appearance" area remains blank
until and unless I click inside the square area and "select" the blank
area then I can briefly see the Markdown, numbered list etc but it
disappears again when that area loses focus.

Similarly, if I use "Save As..." then the resulting window is partially
blank (i.e. only the left hand side list of icons is visible but without
any text accompanying the icons), and the right-hand-side panel will
show the target directory names OK, and the bottom pull-down-lists
"Automatically Detected" and "Unix/Linux (LF)" are initially blank until
I click the down-arrow to populate them.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: gnome-text-editor 46.3-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-60.63-generic 6.8.12
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-60-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Jun 19 18:55:26 2025
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-01-14 (1617 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
SourcePackage: gnome-text-editor
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2025-06-18 (1 days ago)

** Affects: gnome-text-editor (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug noble

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Title:
  gnome-text-editor blank text on popup window controls after inplace
  upgrade to 24.04.2

Status in gnome-text-editor package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I inplace-upgraded my desktop computer from ubuntu desktop 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS and then to 24.04.2 LTS.
  After this completed, gedit was gone and I had gnome-text-editor version 46.3 .

  I pinned this to the dash and launch it from there.
  The computer has an nvidia graphics card, prior to upgrade it was using the nvidia driver v470.

  
  When I use a menu item that opens a popup window, sometimes the texts for the controls on those popup windows are blank, and either temporarily appear on scroll/select before disappearing again, or stay populated when clicked.

  For example hamburger-menu > Preferences will show a window that has
  some controls outlined, radio-buttons , but no text. If I scroll the
  right-hand-side slider down, some of the text for radio-button items
  will appear (but not all) and will shortly disappear again after a
  couple of seconds if I wait. If I "mouse-over" some of the blank
  radio-button items, the text appears and sticks (i.e. does not
  disappear). For the top of the preferences window the "Appearance"
  area remains blank until and unless I click inside the square area and
  "select" the blank area then I can briefly see the Markdown, numbered
  list etc but it disappears again when that area loses focus.

  Similarly, if I use "Save As..." then the resulting window is
  partially blank (i.e. only the left hand side list of icons is visible
  but without any text accompanying the icons), and the right-hand-side
  panel will show the target directory names OK, and the bottom pull-
  down-lists "Automatically Detected" and "Unix/Linux (LF)" are
  initially blank until I click the down-arrow to populate them.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
  Package: gnome-text-editor 46.3-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-60.63-generic 6.8.12
  Uname: Linux 6.8.0-60-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.7
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Jun 19 18:55:26 2025
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-01-14 (1617 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
  SourcePackage: gnome-text-editor
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2025-06-18 (1 days ago)

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