Thanks. These messages are unusual and could result in things being left
on screen:

  clutter_timeline_set_auto_reverse: assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_TIMELINE (timeline)' 
failed
  clutter_timeline_set_repeat_count: assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_TIMELINE (timeline)' 
failed
  invalid (NULL) pointer instance

But the only thing I can see in your screenshot that affects animation
timings is the use of indicators. Please try this:

  gnome-extensions disable [email protected]

and then log in again.

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Title:
  Dark rectangle over gnome-terminal is a ghost of a "visual alert"

Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I started getting dark rectangles obscuring my main gnome-terminal
  windows when I left the session locked for a while. Description of
  chasing and removing these is at
  https://linux.codidact.com/posts/293718 , and the screenshot below
  shows some of those rectangles after I poked their size and opacity to
  better illustrate what happens.

  Now I found the cause and a recipe to reproduce the bug.

  1. Open a gnome-terminal (3.52.0-1ubuntu2) or xterm (390-1ubuntu3) window; 
but not foot (1.16.2-2ubuntu0.1) because it does not seem to be able to alert 
on terminal bell. For better confirmation: make the window a distinctive size, 
not full screen.
  2. In gnome-control-center go to Accessibility > Hearing > Visual Alerts. 
Enable for "entire window". Bug seems not to trigger for "entire screen", but I 
didn't try hard because I don't want to dig myself out of that mess.
  3. Run something that generates ASCII BEL for the remainder of the test such 
as `while true; do echo -ne \\a; sleep 1; done` . In my case it was the 
occasional bell of an email, a random factor which made it harder to figure out 
the cause.
  4. Lock the screen. Bug does not trigger when screen is active. By rectangle 
counting, I suspect the bug also triggers during the password unlock dialog.
  5. Expected: each visual alert to be finished and gone within a second of the 
BEL.
  6. What you find when you unlock: a pile of semi-transparent dark rectangles 
stacked on your alerting window, approximately one per BEL emitted during the 
lock time. One or two might leave the text legible but dim, but more often the 
window is plain black.
  7. Uf necessary, or you are curious about what they are: use the Wayland 
looking glass to find and delete the rectangles. 
https://linux.codidact.com/posts/293718
  8. Switch Visual Alerts off and be grateful that you don't really need them. 🫣

  Other notes that might be relevant:

  Grok advises that gnome-shell is the package providing this a11y
  function, so that's why I'm offering the report here.

  Grok also advises to give `journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell` output,
  but there is nothing recent ie. since last reboot.

  The opacity of these rectangles seems to vary, as if the visual alert
  were progressing as usual and then got an exception which prevented it
  becoming transparent and being deleted?

  It seems the visual alert was incomplete and not deleted. Mouse clicks
  can pass through them but the window's image is blocked or greatly
  darkened.

  The size of the rectangle seems to match the area flashed. This is
  more obvious after watching xterm flash repeatedly.

  With gnome-terminal it is possible to drag tabs out of the obscured
  window to "rescue" them... if you can see or guess where the tab is.

  ---

  Using a fairly standard Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Noble desktop on x86_64,

  $ lsb_release -rd
  No LSB modules are available.
  Description:  Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
  Release:      24.04
  $ apt-cache policy gnome-shell
  gnome-shell:
    Installed: 46.0-0ubuntu6~24.04.9
    Candidate: 46.0-0ubuntu6~24.04.9
    Version table:
   *** 46.0-0ubuntu6~24.04.9 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       46.0-0ubuntu6~24.04.3 500
          500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/main amd64 
Packages
       46.0-0ubuntu5 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
  $ apt-cache policy xwayland
  xwayland:
    Installed: 2:23.2.6-1ubuntu0.5
    Candidate: 2:23.2.6-1ubuntu0.5
    Version table:
   *** 2:23.2.6-1ubuntu0.5 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       2:23.2.6-1ubuntu0.4 500
          500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/main amd64 
Packages
       2:23.2.6-1 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages

  ---

  So long and thanks for all the adjectival animals!
  --- 
  ProblemType: Bug
  ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.7
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  DisplayManager: gdm3
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-10-13 (240 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 
(20240827.1)
  Package: gnome-shell 46.0-0ubuntu6~24.04.9
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   TERM=xterm-256color
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.11.0-26.26~24.04.1-generic 6.11.11
  RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 46.2-1ubuntu0.24.04.8
  Tags: noble wayland-session
  Uname: Linux 6.11.0-26-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sudo users
  _MarkForUpload: True

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