Screen blinks to desktop when OSD message appears over fullscreen window or even when you move the mouse

but it is not happening with notify-osd but when i move my mouse and i am in full screen, all my screen ginger up and it shows me for a sec my wallpaper, thi8s did not happened before

this is a problem with compiz i think when i set my window application to full screen, this is happening to firefox and any other aplication

Hi Manzur,

Thanks for filing this bug. I don't understand what you mean by the word "ginger", could you please elaborate? :)

it blinks, u know?, like for a millisecond it shows me my wallpaper and it return to my video in full screen or my Firefox browser in full screen, my video or my Firefox in full screen blinks; This did not happened before

I've seen this bug with seb128 today. The screen shortly "blinks" as the notification is displayed, ie the whole screen where the video is displayed shortly turns back to the normal desktop, and then the video reappears. It is barely noticeable and lasts less than a few frames (vblank?) but it feels a bit jerky.

It's bad, because we choose to display brightness/volume notifications even when a fullscreen window is present, exactly for cases like watching a movie.

The screen shortly "blinks when i move the mouse and totem shows me playback buttons too

I can confirm the same as David Barth has reported is happening on my installation of Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit with Nvidia proprietary driver and normal level of compiz effects turned on.

I can confirm this on Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit. Any notification causes full screen apps to blink, both when the notification appears on and disappears from the screen.

The same thing happens if for example I open a pdf file in evince, go to full screen mode and move the mouse cursor so that it's over the "Leave Fullscreen" button. After a second or two, the screen starts to flicker like crazy until I move the mouse off the button.

Even more annoying if you play fullscreen games because in some games you look into the sky both times when the notification appears and disappears.

What happened to the (somewhere) suggested "do-not-disturb-mode"? this mode could be turned on if an application becomes fullscreen.

@Crashkopf What happened to the (somewhere) suggested "do-not-disturb-mode"? this mode could be turned on if an application becomes full-screen.

for me this mode should not be automatically turned on when and application is set to full screen, it should be turned on only if we want it like this, I mean it should be only as an option, as an indicator-applet preference.

because sometimes i am waiting for some one to get online and i will not see him or her if I have my indicator-applet turn off

Same here, but there is a solution that it works for me, finded it in http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7197910&postcount=8

$ gconftool-2 --set --type bool /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/unredirect_fullscreen_windows false

I have an Acer Aspire One 150 with Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

$ lspci|grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
Codename: jaunty

The solution offered above by Xoan works for me like a charm.

I have a desktop with Asus P5KPL motherboard.
OS Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz
Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT, with NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 180.44 installed

I know it works but that is not the idea

I think only critical messages should be displayed while an application uses fullscreen. There is always a reason why an app uses fullscreen, mostly because it should hide other disturbing elements of the desktop or because the app needs more space than provided by a maximazed window.
My opinion is that notify-osd should respect the "app's will" (which is in most cases ultimately the user's will) of using the entire screen by hiding the most unimportant messages from the user.

Xoan, thx. That works for me either.

compiz has too much bugs. :( as i said in a brainstorm idea: clean it, and merge it or drop it and improve gnome compositing as kde is now, kde nowadays doe not need compiz to be beauty

Cleaning and merging of compiz code is a good idea. But let me know that one of the most criticized feature of KDE 4 is their compositing which is far behind compiz. Gnome has other area where they should aim their capacity, e.g. management of mime types and association of applications to them, merging cluttered settings apps in Preferrence and Appearance etc.

yes that is true VladimirCZ, we have to merge cluttered settings apps in Preference and Appearance etc, and make a way to change what application a file type choose to start, I hope these things get fixed at least with gnome 3 and about this:
"But let me know that one of the most criticized feature of KDE 4 is their compositing which is far behind compiz"
yes of course it is far behind compiz, but it is solid and stable as it should be, they are far away from compiz, none say "no" but they are making solid improvements as fast as possible, that is what we need

of course KDE is not my favorite desktop environment but gnome.
Gnome is performance, speed, Gnome is great, but it could be the best if we make some tweaks to it.

OK, "manzur" I think we share the same vision of targets. I just wanted to point out that dropping compiz might be waste of much work and resources, but I am frank to admit to know only a bit about the OS architecture, thus perhaps taking over (or better integrating) of cleaned compiz code into gnome is not technically possible and the alternative branch of development should be prefered. As I said my remark was mainly economic by its motivation. Anyway, thank you for your replies.

Bug 387122 is NOT A DUPE OF THIS BUG. 387122 has nothing to do with the notifications, and happens regardless of any notifications being displayed or not

well said borrell, because of that i have change the title a little, the thing is that this bug is in compiz, and it blinks to desktop when we have an application in fullscreen video and you move the mouse orpress super-key and mouse wheel to zoom your desktop, etc... there you know

oh, please explain for me. i don't understand what is "OSD message".

I get that same behavior, at any fullscreen mode i guess, i am some times on virtualbox and get that annoying behavior ... about the do-not-disturb when on fullscreen mode show be an option ...

The only way to fix this is to disable unredirect_fullscreen_windows but last time I checked doing so results in a large performance penalty on everything except nvidia cards. Perhaps that is not the case anymore now that so much has changed in the intel driver.

Disabling unredirect_fullscreen_windows fixes the flicker for me, thanks!

For a better explanation of the issues involved with this bug, please read the last two paragraphs of https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/372789/comments/1

After some testing we've turned unredirect fullscreen windows off by default again in karmic. That should fix this problem at least as far as compiz is concerned.

but is that really the right solution, disabling it by default?, i wonder..