So, i've been using a sort of messed up install of Ubuntu because i was testing the Jaunty alpha way back when, and never did a clean install once the final version came out. I get some weird bugs every once in a while, but they're minor so i tolerate them (although i will be sure to do a clean install for every new release from now on). I'm never sure if a bug i encounter is an actual bug, or just a side effect of upgrading from an alpha. One of these strange bugs is that, very rarely, when i'm browsing in Midori, although it did happen once in Firefox, a black bar, a few lines of text thick and the width of a web page, will appear. It goes away when i scroll so that the bar is out of view and then scroll back, or if i minimize and restore the window. Anyways, one time, something a little stranger happened...
That's clearly the cutout of a giant star. The black bar was a box covering the entire page except for this huge star. What the hell is that doing there? That screenshot isn't perfect since i clicked something before capturing it which made some blocks go back to normal, but the huge star is still clearly visible. Is this something other webkit-gtk users have experienced and how the hell could that star have gotten there?
That's clearly the cutout of a giant star. The black bar was a box covering the entire page except for this huge star. What the hell is that doing there? That screenshot isn't perfect since i clicked something before capturing it which made some blocks go back to normal, but the huge star is still clearly visible. Is this something other webkit-gtk users have experienced and how the hell could that star have gotten there?
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This happens to me too (the black blocks, not the star), Jaunty, upgraded from beta (not alpha) to final. I'm running amd64 with a NVidia graphics card with the 180 drivers.
hobofood: ditto.
I've seen this in Jaunty as well. I've seen it with a variety of graphics cards and drivers, so it's not a driver issue. At this point, I suspect a bug in X itself.
I'd try stripping compiz out and going to the basic open-source video drivers, then doing updates from there.
linux4noobsmod@reddit
could the black boxes be related to this bug?
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/3d_desktops-beryl_compiz_and_more
Looks like a gnome-screensaver.
You think that's weird? Firefox 3.10 on my Ubuntu system frequently reverts to FF 2 all of sudden, until I close and reopen the program. I have NO IDEA how or why, but it is FF2 in every respect, down to user agent in traffic logs.
@Astro - I don't think it's gnome-screensaver, it seems to primarily happen to Firefox's status bar for me, and it is usually when I am using the machine (so gnome-screensaver would not turn on).
I also am not sure it is a bug with the NVidia drivers, because I have been using the same drivers since 9.04 release and this has only started happening recently (a week or two)
star is in the background of web page
I can't see a star on the webpage, and if you look at the image, you can see that the star is causing some weird rendering issues with the text too.
The site is here: http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyseven
There is a star in the web-page. It's somewhat subtle, but it's there. http://live.gnome.org/moin_static164/gnome/css/star.png
It has a transparent background, so I'm going to guess something is wrong with your graphics drivers.
Or... you know... it's a BUG.
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