Comment 318 for bug 439448

TOMA is Spanish, ;)

2010/12/17 Mahendra Tallur <email address hidden>

> Joaquin : TOMA ? Googled it, didn't find :)
>
> All : hmm, I'm not sure this is relevant but this seems interesting.
> Usually I only keep a top panel and corruption appears in the indicators
> area and disappears with a "killall gnome-panel". I recently started my
> /home from scratch and kept everything as conservative & "out of the
> box" as possible.
>
> I noticed that : corruption appears here more frequently in the bottom
> panel ("show desktop" applet) (and once in a while in the top panel near
> the canonical indicators). So this seems unrelated to the indicators.
> More importantly, when calling "killall gnome-panel" corruption doesn't
> disappear systematically. It actually makes it happen about 50% of the
> cases !
>
> In other word : starting from an "out of the box"' Ubuntu install with
> Compiz, corruption may be triggered when calling a couple of times
> "killall gnome-panel" and can thus be reproduced very easily. Also, it
> is thus 1) not related to the indicators 2) not related to the GNOME
> startup itself as it can be reproduced afterwards
>
> We may add 3) seems to be related to themes that use the Murrine GTK
> engine ? 4) is definitely triggered when Compiz is enabled.
>
> I'm making assumptions and definitely didn't re-read the hundreds of
> comments of this bugreport. Do you think guys we could/should set up a
> wiki page or a poll or another statistical tool to have a better
> consciousness / visibility of the different factors at play ?
>
> (also : noone interested by a bounty ?)
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439448
>
> Title:
> Visual corruption affecting several panel applets
>
> Status in Compiz:
> Invalid
> Status in Desktop panel for GNOME:
> New
> Status in Indicator Applet:
> Invalid
> Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “gnome-panel” source package in Lucid:
> Confirmed
> Status in “gnome-panel” source package in Maverick:
> Triaged
> Status in “gnome-panel” source package in Natty:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
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>
> Binary package hint: gnome-panel, nm-applet, etc...
>
> SUMMARY:
>
> After graphical logon notification area gets scrambled. Icons are in
> terrible mess. Some of them are overlapping others. Sometimes network
> manager icon is missing. Sometimes phantom icons show up. They can be clones
> of any other icons in the notification area. Bug affects any graphics card:
> ATI, nVidia, Intel...
>
> WORKAROUND 1:
>
> Run 'killall gnome-panel' from the terminal or Gnome's "Run" dialog. The
> panels will automatically respawn correctly.
>
> WORKAROUND 2:
>
> When you get your icons distorted right-click on the affected panel (not
> icons) click "Properties". In "Panel Properties" change panel orientation to
> "Left" or "Right" and back to "Top" or "Bottom". In my case all icons are
> displayed properly, but one (nm-applet) is missing.
>
> WORKAROUND 3:
>
> Right click the Gnome panel and remove the offending applets and re-add
> them, i.e. Indicator Applet, etc.
>
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