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Unity doesn't provide an easy way to enable/disable the low graphics mode

Bug #1668950 reported by Eleni Maria Stea on 2017-03-01

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	unity (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Eleni Maria Stea	Ubuntu later
Nominated for Xenial by Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
	Xenial	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

[Impact]
There's a ccsm setting that is called "Low Graphics Mode". When this setting is checked the blur is removed from the dash and the launcher in Unity 7. New Low Graphics Mode features like moving windows and others that are presented on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW_Bg0WrS3Q cannot be enabled through this checkbox and their settings are spreaded in different plugins. The low graphics mode setting shouldn't be a Unity plugin option but a global gsetting that is checked by u7.

[Test Case]
1. Open terminal
2. gsettings get com.canonical.Unity lowgfx
3. Returns True of False (not "No such key 'lowgfx'")

[Potential Regression]
None

See original description

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Related branches

lp://qastaging/~hikiko/unity/unity.lowgfx-2017

Merged into lp://qastaging/unity at revision 4232

Marco Trevisan (Treviño): Approve on 2017-03-21

lp://qastaging/~3v1n0/unity/lowgfx-profile-setter

Merged into lp://qastaging/unity at revision 4233

Andrea Azzarone (community): Approve on 2017-04-06

lp://qastaging/~3v1n0/unity-control-center/unity-lowgfx-support

Merged into lp://qastaging/unity-control-center at revision 12887

Sebastien Bacher: Approve on 2017-06-27

Matthew Paul Thomas (community): Approve (design) on 2017-06-27

Unity Control Center development team: Pending requested 2017-06-26

lp://qastaging/~unity-team/unity/x-sru5

Merged into lp://qastaging/unity/7.4 at revision 4115

Andrea Azzarone (community): Approve on 2017-07-27

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lp://qastaging/~ci-train-bot/unity/unity-ubuntu-xenial-2841

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2017-04-28:

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.5.0+17.10.20170425.1-0ubuntu1

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unity (7.5.0+17.10.20170425.1-0ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium

  [ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
  * Drop libupstart-dev dependency, and simply include verbantim dbus
    object paths.
  * Do not use upstart-dbus.h in compiz_config_profile_setter either.

  [ Eleni Maria Stea ]
  * removes lowgfx option from ccsm, reads the "lowgfx" gsetting
    (lp:~hikiko/unity-control-center/unity-control-center.lowgfx) (LP:
    #1668950)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * Panel: ensure the menu-manager tracker is updated to match monitor
    (LP: #1671432)
  * compiz-profile-setter: tool to update the current profile and use in
    systemd and Unity settings (LP: #1668950)

[ Nick Dedekind ]
* Fixed tooltip scaling issues. (LP: #1673950)

-- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@3v1n0.net> Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:59:20 +0000

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Released

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2017-06-27:

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Andrea Azzarone (azzar1) on 2017-07-17

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2017-11-30: Please test proposed package

Hello Eleni, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/7.4.5+16.04.20171116 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in unity (Ubuntu Xenial):
status:	New → Fix Committed
tags:	added: verification-needed verification-needed-xenial

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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote on 2017-12-04:

Hello Eleni, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/7.4.5+16.04.20171201.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

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John Lenton (chipaca) wrote on 2017-12-14:

I can verify that after upgrading to 1:0.9.12.3+16.04.20171116-0ubuntu1, that gsetting controls low graphics mode.

I had low graphics mode enabled before upgrading, using
~$ cat .config/upstart/lowgfx.conf
start on starting unity7
pre-start script
initctl set-env -g UNITY_LOW_GFX_MODE=1
end script

which was how it was suggested to enable it at some point in the past. This script is still there after upgrade, but it seems people that have the script need to still set the new gsettings key to get the full benefit. (I'm not sure there's a better way, fwiw; I don't think this should block things, but I do think it's a little bit untidy).

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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote on 2017-12-15:

Mh, that environment variable is still supported, and actually running unity with that set should make it use the non-3d version too.

tags:

added: verification-done verification-done-xenial
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-xenial

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2018-02-16:

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This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.4.5+16.04.20171201.3

---------------
unity (7.4.5+16.04.20171201.3) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * InputMonitor: add an unity class that monitors XInput2 events and
    converts them to XEvent
  * EdgeBarrierController: use InputMonitor to get the barrier events
    instead of relying on its implementation
  * DecorationsMenuLayout: use input monitor for menu scrubbing (LP:
    #1614597)
  * PanelView: use InputMonitor to track menu events
  * LockScreenPanel: use InputMonitor events instead of mouse polling
    for menu scrubbing
  * MenuManager: add support for mouse trackers with triangle algorithm
    support (LP: #1618405)
  * PanelView: scale gradient refinement properly
  * PanelService: don't allow to deactivate menus if they've been opened
    too shortly
  * LockScreenController: ignore icon_paths_changed signal in
    menumanager for Lockscreen
  * LockScreenController: use InputMonitor to get all the events and
    hide the Blank Window (LP: #1321075)
  * LockScreenController: use input monitor to get the events to switch
    monitor (LP: #1316862)
  * LauncherOptions: use track_obj to manage option changes (LP:
    #1622995)
  * UnityScreen: toggle gestures recognition on lock (LP: #1645507)
  * GnomeSessionManager: add gcancellable to instance and use it for
    calls with temporary proxies
  * BackgroundSettings: use gnome-bg to generate textures with proper
    scaling (LP: #1666359)
  * UnityWindow: safely check validity of UnityWindow from scaled one
    (LP: #1659847)
  * Panel: ensure the menu-manager tracker is updated to match monitor
    (LP: #1671432)
  * compiz-profile-setter: tool to update the current profile and use in
    systemd and Unity settings (LP: #1668950)
  * BGHash, UnityScreen: get desktop averageColor from compiz
  * Launcher: disable or reduce most icon effects on lowgfx (LP:
    #1700859)
  * PanelController: ensure we disconnect from signals on destruction
    (LP: #1504870)
  * tools: add migration script to set the default values for unity-
    lowgfx profile

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Properly handle the file manager copy dialog in
    FileManagerLauncherIcon and in StorageLauncherIcon. (LP: #1575452,
    LP: #1609845)
  * Correctly position the force quit dialog when scaling is different
    than 1.0 (LP: #1637991)
  * GnomeSession: Retrieve the session id using dbus if $XDG_SESSION_ID
    is not set
  * Round gtk scaling factor to closest integer. (LP: #1649736)
  * Keep the screen locked if rebooting with autologin. (LP: #1600389)
  * Use g_mkdir_with_parents instead of mkdir.
  * Lockscreen: always draw the background-color in the lockscreen (LP:
    #1702701)
  * Refactor the way UserAuthenticator is created and passed around.
    Handle failures to create new threads and fallback to a "Switch to
    greeter..." button in case of failure. (LP: #1311316)
  * Wait until the color buffer is cleared before suspending. (LP:
    #1532508)

  [ Kai-Heng Feng ]
  * UnitySettings: If scale-factor is not set, find and set right scale
    for HiDPI displays.

[ Eleni Maria Stea ]
* shouldn't create blur rectangles when there's ...

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