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Gnome graphical issues in Ubuntu 12.04

Bug #990703 reported by James Thompson
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gedit (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Hello,

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 from 11.10 and I had a few issues with Gnome, it wouldnt load and I found out it was an issue with libclutter (I had built the package manually and it hadnt been upgraded), after removing it and re-installing everything that depended on it I managed to get it working with the following exceptions:
 - When highlighting by dragging the mouse, the cursor seems to skip over parts or reset itself, highlighting in general is just not possible
 - Tab switching in gedit doesnt always work, the new tab doesnt get selected most of the time and even if it does sometimes the text below it isnt refreshed until I scroll or ctrl-a it.

They seem to be rendering issues but reproducing them can be difficult as it sometimes works fine.

I am using official Nvidia drivers, but switching between official and Ubuntu drivers didnt help.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Many Thanks

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, does it happen in a guest session? Could you take a screenshot of the issue?

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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James Thompson (keiouu) wrote :

It does happen in a guest session.

Its a little hard to screenshot the issue.. Imagine clicking on a tab to open another document but nothing happens until you scroll, then the page updates but the tab doesnt until you resize the window. It "looks fine" on a screenshot, but isnt working as intended

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James Thompson (keiouu) wrote :

To clarify: these issues are purely graphical. If I swap to another window or do anything that would cause the screen to "re-draw" then it fixes itself, its just that switching tabs doesnt cause the screen to re-draw.

I originally posted this as a question but was directed here to bug report it.
I'm not convinced this is an issue with Gedit itself, but perhaps an issue with my installation.

If there is a way to view all packages gedit depends on for drawing, I could re-install them and see if that fixes anything..

Many Thanks,
James

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Robert Aschacher (gentleman-trilby) wrote :

I can confirm this problem on my own 12.04 installation.

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aanno (thomas-pasch) wrote :

Well, for me it is just the white highlight color in gedit. It really makes gedit unusable...

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aanno (thomas-pasch) wrote :
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aanno (thomas-pasch) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for gedit (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Martin Hjelmare (marhje52) wrote :

I can also confirm this problem with gedit tabs on 12.04 with Nvidia 319.32.

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