GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 663613
Activities overview scales windows from other desktops
Last modified: 2011-11-08 15:05:30 UTC
After some use the activities view scales windows from other desktops over other scaled windows. It's quite difficult to explain clearly, but if I have 3 windows on desk 1 and three on desk 2 I see all 6, but partially overlapping. If I click one of the 'wrong' windows it even moves to desk 2. Some of the scaled windows also overlap the mini-desktop column. I made a very low quality screencast which shows the issue, but is difficult to see due to the blue flashes. I use the ubuntu gnome-shell 3.2.1 from Ubuntu 11.10. I tried the newest NVIDIA drivers for my card using a special PPA, but that didn't help.
Attaching the screencast failed. I put a copy in my dropbox: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10581563/gnome-shell-scale-issue.ogv
Thanks for the report. I think the blue flashes are a driver problem: you should try the free Nouveau driver for NVidia cards. The main problem with overlapping windows is a duplicate of bug 661419. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 661419 ***
Right...I'll take that as a "your searching skills suck"....And they do, because I did search bugzilla, but didn't see that by default it only searches open bugs..... Thanks for your help.
(In reply to comment #3) > Right...I'll take that as a "your searching skills suck"....And they do, > because I did search bugzilla, but didn't see that by default it only searches > open bugs..... Developers know the bug list by heart at this point. Please don't let your duplicates keep you from filing bugs -- I'd rather flag 19 duplicates and have one bug than miss a bug.
(In reply to comment #3) > I did search bugzilla, but didn't see that by default it only searches > open bugs..... The default makes sense for developers looking for bugs to fix, but it sucks for users reporting problems :(