Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: compiz
This is gutsy, updated/upgraded via apt-get just an hour ago. I have noticed
several annoying glitches that I assume others have too... This is on a lenovo
thinkpad x60 (intel 945 graphics).
opengl works nicely without compiz.
I have enabled "full" desktop effects - wobbling, panning workspace
switching. I run many workspaces and switch between them with ctrl-f1,
ctrl-f2 etc.
I usually dedicate some workspaces to running applications in full-
screen (not maximized, but full-screen) mode - an xterm for irc on one
workspace, a fullscreen firefox on another, etc. Normally I have a
desktop shortcut (shift-ctrl-enter) to toggle fullscreen, so i use it a
lot.
1. When running a window in fullscreen mode, the workspace switcher
animation (in the middle of the screen) does not fade properly when
switching _TO_ a currently focused fullscreen window. It disappears
when it should start to fade down. REPRODUCE: Open one fullscreen (not
maximized! fullscreen!) each on workspace 1 and 2. click or otherwise
focus the xterm in workspace 1. Move from workspace 1 to workspace 2
and watch the animation fade nicely. do not click anything. move back
to workspace 1, notice that the nice animation is gone.
2. When switching _TO_ a fullscreen window on a workspace, if a PANEL is
currently in focus, the panel will not disappear and it will overlap the
window which is supposed to be fullscreen. The panels do not go away
from the fullscreen workspace until the fullscreen window is manually
clicked/focused. REPRODUCE: fullscreen xterm on workspace 1, move ot
workspace 2, click on panel, move to workspace 1 and see panel where it
should not be visible.
3. flickering and strangeness in firefox while interacting with input fields,
in full screen mode.
Whenever a pulldown menu is activated (i dont know the right word here) the
screen flickers and the menu does not work. Sometime the entire screen is
filled with garbage momentarily. Other times a large diagonal bar flickers
over the entire screen. REPRODUCE: use the firefox search bar to search for a
couple of words starting with "aa". Then move into the search box and type an
a and possibly arrow down key. this should pop up a list of previous search
terms, but instead just causes flickering and strangeness. by moving the
window out of fullscreen mode (into maximized state only, for example)
everything works nicely.
4. alt-tab interaction with fullscreen windows: on workspaces with one
fullscreen window and several regular windows (possibly hidden behind
the fullscreen window), pressing alt-tab to switch windows will show a
black screen when the fullscreen window is in focus in the switcher.
5. Playing a video stream with vlc, or watching a web page with many
flash movies on it, uses _a lot_ of resources. The strange thing about
vlc is that when i open a video stream, fullscreen it and watch it, it
works flawlessly (except for high cpu). but there are no skips.
however, if i switch _away_ from the fullscreen video window, to another
workspace, the system quickly gets "sluggish" and i must stop vlc and
restart it to fix it. it only happens if i switch away from the
fullscreen vlc.
As you can i figure all of these are fullscreen related real bugs. I
would love for others to see if they can reproduce these..
These use cases are _very_ useful for me as a power user and I hope we
can get them fixed asap, as it is horribly annoying right now.
Hope this was not too unstructured! Looking forward to hearing
feedback.
yours
** Affects: compiz (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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very annoying glitches with compiz in gutsy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152973
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