Created attachment 937963 [details] screenshot of blank brightness popup Description of problem: When adjusting the monitor brightness using the laptop brightness keys, a blank gray square pops up in the lower center of the screen. See the attached screenshot. It should have an icon indicating brightness and a level or meter showing the brightness increasing or decreasing. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mate-power-manager-1.8.0-5.fc21.x86_64 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. change brightness using laptop keys Actual results: pop up is a blank gray square Expected results: pop up shows brightness icon and meter Additional info:
hmm, i don't see this issue on my MSI FX700 with intel graphics in f21. Maybe it's a theme issue, did you tried it with another theme?
I wondered about the theme after I opened this BZ, but changing the theme had no effect: it was still a blank square. (Unless I have to logout and login again after changing the theme...?)
No, normaly for a theme change you don't need to logout. But it seems that a debian user has the same issue. http://forums.mate-desktop.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3261#p9948
Can you please run mate-power-manger from a terminal with --verbose? killall mate-power-manger mate-power-manger --verbose Maybe you see some hints, fell free to attach the log here.
~ feel free ;)
Now i understand the issue, it happens here too if i only use the keyboard keys :/
But the normal behaviour is that the applet slider doesn't pop up when using keyboard keys.
upstream report: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-power-manager/issues/110 I happens only with non compositing windows-manager. As a workaround you can enable compositing in marco window-manager or using compiz. For marco do 'gsettings set org.mate.Marco.general compositing-manager true'
Turning on marco's compositing worked. Thanks for the suggestion!
Created attachment 941557 [details] mate-power-manager --verbose output In case it's still helpful, here's the verbose output of mate-power-manager.
Please note that it affects F20 as well. It started happening around the 1.8.x rebase (was fine in 1.6.x series). I've upgraded to F21 already, so there's no going back to 1.6.x for me. I wasn't using a compositing window manager either, but enabling compositing like mentioned in comment 8 does work around this issue for me as well.
mate-power-manager-1.8.1-2.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/mate-power-manager-1.8.1-2.fc21
mate-power-manager-1.8.1-2.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/mate-power-manager-1.8.1-2.fc20
Package mate-power-manager-1.8.1-2.fc21: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing mate-power-manager-1.8.1-2.fc21' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-0417/mate-power-manager-1.8.1-2.fc21 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
mate-power-manager-1.8.1-2.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
mate-power-manager-1.8.1-2.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.