Launcher popups (preview windows, balloons) sometimes stick on the desktop making it unusable
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unity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I did a fresh install of Precise yesterday on this machine. It's an Alienware M15x with an nVidia GT240M card and it's running Nouveau.
Yesterday, one of the balloons from a launcher icon (the one that appears when you right click an icon, giving you app name, pin to launcher, etc) stuck open and basically made that area of the screen unusable because it would never go away, and anything moved into that area would appear under the balloon.
Just now, this morning, I clicked on the google chrome icon and was presented with two preview views. I had two chrome browsers open at the time. I clicked the preview I wanted to go to, and as it was enlarging, it created a giant white rectangle that covered almost the entire desktop, on top of all applications. I was unable to clear this out too. I tried using Log Out, which did nothing, and I tried Switch User, which also did nothing. Eventually I had to SIGHUP Xorg to reset everything and get rid of it, which did work.
This has happened twice in two days and when it happens, there's an excellent chance that the system is nearly unusable, and I could lose any open work because I can't see the open apps to successfully close them before restarting X. Also, I tried switching workspaces and that too did not fix the issue.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.6.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
.proc.driver.
.proc.driver.
.proc.driver.
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 295.20 Mon Feb 6 21:07:30 PST 2012
GCC version: gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu2)
.tmp.unity.
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Fri Mar 16 09:56:44 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: nvidia-current, 295.20, 3.2.0-18-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard:
NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 240M] [10de:0a34] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02a2]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120307)
JockeyStatus:
xorg:nvidia_
xorg:nvidia_
MachineType: Alienware M15x
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XorgConf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
dmi.bios.date: 08/24/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Alienware
dmi.bios.version: A08
dmi.board.vendor: Alienware
dmi.board.version: A08
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Alienware
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAlienwar
dmi.product.name: M15x
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Alienware
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.30-1ubuntu1
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Here's a screenshot I managed to get with Shutter showing the giant white rectangle that is covering pretty much everything. Note also that in the Screenshot, the launcher is not visible, but on my display, it WAS visible and the left edge of that rectangle was docked to the right edge of the launcher panel.