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Description of problem: When Applications icon menu has a scroll bar, the entire list blinks at 4Hz. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-shell-3.2.2.1-1.fc16.i686 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click Activities (or upper left corner) 2. Click Applications 3. Default category, All, will have a scroll bar and blink. Actual results: Blinking begins at 4 hz, accelerates for a few seconds, then starts at 4Hz again. The icons, and their scroll bar fade in and out rapidly. Expected results: Steady icon list, such as you get without a scrollbar (I can click Games, for instance, and that is a small list for me). Additional info: The icons disappear, revealing the background underneath, then reappear. Appearance and disappearance is smooth and controlled, it is actually a rapid fade in and fade out. All icons do this in unison.
Created attachment 566445 [details] Screencast of blinking Applications menu Here is a screencast of the blinking problem. There is probably a filter to make it smaller, but I don't know what it is.
Did an update, and now the blinking has gone away. Here is what was updated: Feb 29 12:54:30 Updated: setroubleshoot-plugins-3.0.27-1.fc16.noarch Feb 29 12:54:33 Updated: setroubleshoot-server-3.1.3-1.fc16.i686 Feb 29 12:54:35 Updated: setroubleshoot-3.1.3-1.fc16.i686 Feb 29 12:54:41 Updated: graphite2-1.1.0-1.fc16.i686 Feb 29 12:54:43 Updated: tracker-0.12.10-1.fc16.i686 My guess is something went wrong at login that got corrected by the logout/login from the update.
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