Public bug reported: On a fresh install of Oneiric Alpha 3 on a Dell Lattitude 2120 I opened an instance of Gnome Terminal. On opening, the menu bar below the window's titlebar started flashing on and off. Every time it flashed OFF, the terminal window would shrink by the height of the menu bar. Thus, I have witnessed the miracle of the Magical Shrinking Terminal!
I was hoping that this would simply continue shrinking into nothing, or perhaps it would shrink into itself and create a black hole, slowly sucking in the entire desktop around it, a few pixels at a time. But that didn't happen, the terminal shrank to rougly 2 lines height and there the shrinkage stopped. I ran ubuntu-bug and when that launched Firefox, I noticed that, lo and behold, Firefox ALSO suffers from flashing menu bar syndrome. The only difference is that the FireFox window does not shrink, it simply resizes itself accordingly. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: unity 4.6.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.9-generic 3.0.0 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic i686 Architecture: i386 BootLog: fsck from util-linux 2.19.1 /dev/sda1: clean, 144264/19406848 files, 1891786/77620736 blocks Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.bin.firefox CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell] CompositorRunning: compiz Date: Mon Aug 8 15:32:13 2011 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: oneiric DistroVariant: ubuntu GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a011] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:04a5] Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:04a5] InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110803.1) LightdmGreeterLog: MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude 2120 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-7-generic root=UUID=08fbc92a-95f3-46a5-b5ea-ea48d3df5663 ro quiet splash initcall_debug vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 10/06/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: W06 dmi.board.name: DOE3C2 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrW06:bd10/06/2010:svnDellInc.:pnLatitude2120:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rnDOE3C2:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr: dmi.product.name: Latitude 2120 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.5.0-0ubuntu2 version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11~1-0ubuntu4 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11~1-0ubuntu4 version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu6 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.2-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.0-3ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1 ** Affects: unity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug compiz-fai i386 oneiric regression running-unity single-occurrence ubuntu -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/822897 Title: Disappearing/Reappearing toolbar causes magical shrinking gnome- terminal window To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/822897/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs