This bug affects my installation of Natty as well when running in the No-effects version session. It happens with many programs, not just gnome-terminal.
Enabling composting in metacity or using compiz fixes the issue, but adds visual candy that I dislike and seems to also cause occasional GPU hangs (already filed in another bug report). So I do think this is a metacity issue; however, I have the same behavior when using Openbox as my window manager in gnome, which may or may not be related. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778083 Title: Switching workspaces does not always redraw everything necessary Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This bug may be related to metacity, but I am uncertain of that. Since I upgraded to Natty, I've been having a problem when logging in with the Gnome desktop (the Unity desktop is not available for me because my graphics card has no available 3D driver). I've defined eight workspaces, arranged in a 4x2 fashion. When I switch workspaces, using CTRL-ALT-{left,right,up,down}-arrow, sometimes something (I suspect metacity) does not redraw everything that needs to be drawn. Especially window borders belonging to windows that are located on the previous workspace are sometimes left over on the new workspace, but only on top of windows located there, not on the background. This is, however, not always the case, and I cannot seem to figure out when it does and does not happen. If I trigger a complete screen redraw, for example from a terminal by triggering the visual bell, then everything is restored to how it is supposed to look. I've attached four images: one of the workspace at (1,2) (on which I'm filling in this bug report), one of the Gnome Terminal at (2,2) and one of the Gnome Terminal at (1,2). When I'm viewing workspace (1,2), then switch to (2,2) using CTRL-ALT-down-arrow, wait a second (keep on pressing CTRL and ALT) and then switch to (1,2) using CTRL-ALT-left- arrow, then I get (part of) the borders of the Gnome Terminal on (2,2) drawn onto the Gnome Terminal at (1,2). As stated, I'm not sure which package is responsible (for all I know, perhaps the graphics driver is buggy and does not draw everything that it's told to, although I don't have any other drawing problems). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: metacity 1:2.30.3-0ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu May 5 21:21:53 2011 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/zsh SourcePackage: metacity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-16 (18 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/778083/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
