Yes, it's still an issue, and no I can't upgrade my distribution (took long enough to get things up and running once!). Sorry... -Damian
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Lupine <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make > Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been > any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue > for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance. > > ** Changed in: ubuntu > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > Persistent white bar in upper left > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289664 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > There's a 1x17 white bar of pixels that shows up in the upper left of the > screen. They're usually hidden (due to the top menu bar) but they're visible > when a program spans the whole screen (ex. full screen terminals or video - > see attached screenshot). This sliver of pixels is unresponsive, by which I > mean that clicking them doesn't do anything, even if the application usually > displays a right-click context menu. > > This problem manifests on a couple of my systems: > Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) on a laptop (HP Pavilion dv5163cl) > Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) on a PC (Dell Dimension 9200) > > I've noticed that this occurs when I: > a. Run VLC (music or video, it always occurs) > b. Inconsistently occurs when using Firefox > then it disappears when I close those applications. After a bit of > investigating I stumbled on a forum post suggesting that this might either > concern Adobe Flash or UIM (both of which I have): > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-689310-highlight-openbox.html?sid=131dee068fb5ecfdbda853430ae1dbce > > However, the last post was in 2004 and I'm not spotting a bug report so > here it is! My apologies if I should be sending this to someone upstream. > This is a low priority issue, but it's kinda annoying when watching movies > so please let me know if I can be of any help in solving it. Cheers! -Damian > -- Persistent white bar in upper left https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289664 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
