Unity

Panel disappears after resolution change

Bug #795459 reported by David Barth
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
High
Jay Taoko
Unity 3.8.16 "SRU2"
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned
Natty
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

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Fixed in natty-proposed
Test case:
1. Install Unity 3.8.16
2. Choose a lower resolution on the main display in the Monitor Preferences" (System > Preferences > Monitors)
   With the fglrx driver you have to use Catalyst configuration setting.
3. Verify that unity renders correctly at the lower resolution.
4. Restore the original resolution
6. Verify that unity renders correctly and that the Panel is visible

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Panel disappears case

After a resolution change, the Unity panel may disappear.

Steps to reproduce:
1- Open the Monitors control panel.
2- Choose a different resolution and orientation (we use 640x480 upside down).
3- Press Apply.
4- Select "Restore original configuration" to return to how things were originally.

Expected result:
- Resolution restores, screen rebuilds and is visually identical to how it was before the resolution changed.

Actual result:
- Display is corrupted in various ways. Moving the pointer, dragging windows or generally forcing the system to redraw seems to eventually restore the display to a usable state.

This issue is part of bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/753971

See original description
Revision history for this message
David Barth (dbarth) wrote :

This bug was originally filed as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/753971

It is now splitted to into multiple bugs to represent what's working and what's left to fix.

Please refer to comment #24 of the original bug report for further details: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/753971/comments/24

description: updated
description: updated
description: updated
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Jay Taoko (jaytaoko)
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 3.8.18
status: New → Confirmed
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 3.8.18 → 3.8.16
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Natty):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 3.8.16-0ubuntu1

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unity (3.8.16-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Unable to load icon text-x-preview at size 48 in a loop (lp: #794556)
    - Display garbled upon restoring original resolution (lp: #795454)
    - Display garbled upon connecting external displays (lp: #795458)
    - Panel disappears after resolution change (lp: #795459)
    - Dragging the launcher with right mouse button is
      confusing as menu pops up (lp: #735031)
    - In a double monitor setup the Unity top panel in the second screen is
      cut at the right (lp: #750481)
    - Launcher tooltips sometimes don´t show (lp: #769335)
    - Menu key should open quicklist for the selected item in the launcher
      (lp: #750778)
    - unity is spamming ~/.xsession-errors when windows are closed
      (lp: #767642)
    - Dash button ignores transparency when clicked. (lp: #767733)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:10:09 +0200

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Jay Taoko (jaytaoko)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Please test proposed package

Accepted unity into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

tags: added: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Daniel Manrique (roadmr) wrote :

I tested on 22 affected systems with a variety of Intel, NVidia and ATI/AMD chipsets, changing to i.e. 640x480 and then back to original resolution works fine, with the display rebuilding correctly and the panel showing up without problems.

See this comment for a link to a spreadsheet detailing this and other tests I performed with this update.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/753971/comments/62

So far Unity 3.8.16 seems to solve this problem.

Martin Pitt (pitti)
tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 3.8.16-0ubuntu1~natty1

---------------
unity (3.8.16-0ubuntu1~natty1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Unable to load icon text-x-preview at size 48 in a loop (lp: #794556)
    - Display garbled upon restoring original resolution (lp: #795454)
    - Display garbled upon connecting external displays (lp: #795458)
    - Panel disappears after resolution change (lp: #795459)
    - Dragging the launcher with right mouse button is
      confusing as menu pops up (lp: #735031)
    - In a double monitor setup the Unity top panel in the second screen is
      cut at the right (lp: #750481)
    - Menu key should open quicklist for the selected item in the launcher
      (lp: #750778)
    - unity is spamming ~/.xsession-errors when windows are closed
      (lp: #767642)
    - Dash button ignores transparency when clicked. (lp: #767733)
  * Revert commit for bug #769335, to fix a launcher autohidding issue
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:22:35 +0200

Changed in unity (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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