Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 216230
backgrounded windows get surrounded by a gray box
Last modified: 2008-08-02 19:40:35 EDT
Description of problem: When an application is processing something (and presumably the window hasn't been updated in a while), it fades to grayscale. But not just the application window, also an extra border around it, so the window now looks like it's embedded in a dark gray/black square. Looks pretty crappy. I'm not even sure it's supposed to be fading to grayscale to begin with. Isn't it supposed to become translucent? Note that all of the other compiz window effects work great (if not super speedy, but I'm ok with that). Manually adjusting window translucency with the keybindings also works just fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.fc6 xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.2-4.fc6 compiz-0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run an application that doesn't update it's window for a while 2. Watch the gray box appear 3. Actual results: Gray box appears around now-grayscaled application window Expected results: No gray box Additional info:
Created attachment 141533 [details] screenshot of puplet exhibiting the gray square problem
Created attachment 141535 [details] xorg.conf used on this machine
lspci -vv output for the video card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 LX [Mobility FireGL 7800 M7] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 0518 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR+ FastB2B+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 66 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Region 1: I/O ports at 3000 [size=256] Region 2: Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at d0120000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 Status: RQ=48 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4 Command: RQ=32 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ AGP+ GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=x1 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version of their distribution available. Please, if you experience this problem on the up-to-date system, let us now in the comment for this bug, or whether the upgraded system works for you. If you won't be able to reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.
Mike, is this still relevant? If yes, please, attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from the computer exhibiting this problem. Thanks.
Fedora Core 6 is no longer supported, could you please reproduce this with the updated version of the currently supported distribution (Fedora 7, 8, or Rawhide)? If this issue turns out to still be reproducible, please let us know in this bug report. If after a month's time we have not heard back from you, we will have to close this bug as CANTFIX. Setting status to NEEDINFO, and awaiting information from the reporter. [This is mass-filed message to all open Fedora Core 6 bugs related to Xorg or Gecko. If you see any other reason, why this bug shouldn't be closed, please, comment on it here.]
Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information. Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. {This is mass-closing of all obsolete bugs; if this bug was in your opinion closed by mistake, please, reopen it with additional information; thanks a lot and I am sorry for bothering you in such case.}