Comment 0 for bug 837507

  1. Paste a long string into the Software Centre search box, and keep pasting it.
  2. Eventually
  3. SC window resizes to 19122x951, with various bits of the window no longer drawing as expected.

xwininfo: Window id: 0x2e00089 "Ubuntu Software Centre"

  Absolute upper-left X: 373
  Absolute upper-left Y: 189
  Relative upper-left X: 1
  Relative upper-left Y: 29
  Width: 19122
  Height: 951
  Depth: 24
  Visual: 0x21
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 0
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
  Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: no
  Map State: IsViewable
  Override Redirect State: no
  Corners: +373+189 --18095+189 --18095--90 +373--90
  -geometry 19122x951+372--91

String used (happened to be in clipboard) should be attached, as it doesn't fit here when trying to file the bug report on Launchpad, but given the suspicous length of 65536 bytes, it's likely that any string will do.