When panel opacity is set to between 0.0100 & 0.9900 & no blur option is enabled the panel can get ghosted if an unfocused window touches viewport bottom edge

Bug #1059916 reported by Doug McMahon
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unity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Obviously hard to see at any opacity over 0.9100 or so
Test case:
Set opacity of unity panel to an intermediate valve
Cause any window to touch bottom edge of current workspace
Remove focus from that window, panel gets ghosted the width of that window with some elements of that window

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: compiz 1:0.9.8.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.24-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Mon Oct 1 20:47:24 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GS] [10de:0427] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0209]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20120926)
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS M1330
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-16-generic root=UUID=799c04f2-3f2a-45ce-98bb-cc6fd614e82a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/26/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A15
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd12/26/2008:svnDellInc.:pnXPSM1330:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: XPS M1330
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.4-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0~git20120917.7cfd42ce-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0~git20120917.7cfd42ce-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu5
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu2

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

Marking invalid, must be something local as a new user account is fine...

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

figured out what was causing, No blur with reduced panel opacity

summary: - When panel opacity is set to between 0.0100 & 0.9900 the panel can get
- ghosted if an unfocused window touches viewport bottom edge
+ When panel opacity is set to between 0.0100 & 0.9900 & no blur option is
+ enabled the panel can get ghosted if an unfocused window touches
+ viewport bottom edge
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → New
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1058391, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

affects: compiz (Ubuntu) → unity (Ubuntu)
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