After starting Amarok a strange window artefact appears on the desktop. But only if Firefox has been started before Amarok. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Firefox (not maximized, do not modify the Firefox window at all after the start) 2. Start Amarok (not minimized, stop with main windows open to get it started not minimized) 3. Observe the artefact on the left top corner Actual Results: There appears an "windowed" artefact containing the part of the desktop which was on the top left corner before Amarok windows was shown. The window is not movable, resizable and only disappears when Amarok is quit. This happens only with the first Firefox instance, not when i run another instance (e.g. with another FF profile). And when i maximize or minimize FF before starting Amarok, this does not happen too. It only happens when i run FF and it starts up with a normal sized main window (not minimized, mot maximized). Expected Results: The artiefact should not appear. It does not appear in any other combination of applications. Environment: Linux Mint Dedian Edition 2 "Betsy", all updates installed which are available by 20th Dec. 2015 MATE Desktop with no other modifications on a Lenovo T510: [ 6.354602] thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS 6MET81WW (1.41 ), EC 6MHT43WW-1.18 [ 6.354604] thinkpad_acpi: Lenovo ThinkPad T510, model 4384VK4 Linux lm-joe 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt7-1 (2015-03-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux [ 0.954946] nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Chipset: GT218 (NVA8) [ 0.954948] nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Family : NV50
Which firefox version? Which exact desktop and desktop version are you running? Could you please attach a screenshot of the problem to this report? FWIW: I can't see this here, using Amarok 2.8.90 (aka 2.9 beta) on KDE 4.14.2, Kubuntu 14.10.
screenshots are attached to this issue now. Firefox is version 43.0 and the desktop is MATE on the current LMDE2 Betsy with the following packet state: chris@lm-joe ~ $ dpkg -l | grep mate ii gir1.2-mate-panel 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 GObject introspection data for MATE panel ii libmate-desktop-2-17:amd64 1.12.0.1-1+betsy amd64 Library with common API for various MATE modules (library) ii libmate-menu2:amd64 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 implementation of the freedesktop menu specification for MATE (library) ii libmate-panel-applet-4-1 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 library for MATE Panel applets ii libmate-slab0:amd64 1.12.0.1-1+betsy amd64 beautification app library ii libmate-window-settings1:amd64 1.12.0.1-1+betsy amd64 utilities to configure the MATE desktop (window settings library) ii libmatedict6 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 MATE desktop utilities (matedict library) ii libmatekbd-common 1.12.0-1+betsy all MATE library to manage keyboard configuration (common files) ii libmatekbd4:amd64 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 MATE library to manage keyboard configuration ii libmatemixer-common 1.12.0-1+betsy all Mixer library for MATE Desktop (common files) ii libmatemixer0:amd64 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 Mixer library for MATE Desktop ii libmateweather-common 1.12.0-1+betsy all MateWeather shared library (common files) ii libmateweather1:amd64 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 MateWeather shared library ii libpolkit-gtk-mate-1-0:amd64 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 MATE authentication agent for PolicyKit-1 (library) ii mate-applets 1.12.0.1-1+betsy amd64 Various applets for the MATE panel ii mate-applets-common 1.12.0.1-1+betsy all Various applets for the MATE panel (common files) ii mate-control-center 1.12.0.1-1+betsy amd64 utilities to configure the MATE desktop ii mate-control-center-common 1.12.0.1-1+betsy all utilities to configure the MATE desktop (common files) ii mate-desktop 1.12.0.1-1+betsy amd64 Library with common API for various MATE modules ii mate-desktop-common 1.12.0.1-1+betsy all Library with common API for various MATE modules (common files) ii mate-icon-theme 1.12.0-1+betsy all MATE Desktop icon theme ii mate-media 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 MATE media utilities ii mate-media-common 1.12.0-1+betsy all MATE media utilities (common files) ii mate-menus 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 implementation of the freedesktop menu specification for MATE ii mate-notification-daemon 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 daemon to display passive popup notifications ii mate-notification-daemon-common 1.12.0-1+betsy all daemon to display passive popup notifications (common files) ii mate-panel 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 launcher and docking facility for MATE ii mate-panel-common 1.12.0-1+betsy all launcher and docking facility for MATE (common files) ii mate-polkit:amd64 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 MATE authentication agent for PolicyKit-1 ii mate-polkit-common 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 MATE authentication agent for PolicyKit-1 (common files) ii mate-power-manager 1.12.0.1-1+betsy amd64 power management tool for the MATE desktop ii mate-power-manager-common 1.12.0.1-1+betsy all power management tool for the MATE desktop (common files) ii mate-screensaver 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 MATE screen saver and locker ii mate-screensaver-common 1.12.0-1+betsy all MATE screen saver and locker (common files) ii mate-session-manager 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 Session manager of the MATE desktop environment ii mate-settings-daemon 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 daemon handling the MATE session settings ii mate-settings-daemon-common 1.12.0-1+betsy all daemon handling the MATE session settings (common files) ii mate-system-tools 1.8.1+dfsg1-2mint1+betsy amd64 Cross-platform configuration utilities for MATE ii mate-system-tools-common 1.8.1+dfsg1-2mint1+betsy all Cross-platform configuration utilities for MATE (common files) ii mate-terminal 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 MATE terminal emulator application ii mate-terminal-common 1.12.0-1+betsy all MATE terminal emulator application (common files) ii mate-user-guide 1.12.0-1+betsy all User documentation for MATE Desktop Environment ii mate-utils 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 MATE desktop utilities ii mate-utils-common 1.12.0-1+betsy all MATE desktop utilities (common files) ii mint-artwork-mate 1.2.9 all Default artwork for MATE ii mint-info-debian-mate 2015.03.19 amd64 Necessary information about the Linux Mint release and edition. ii mint-meta-debian-mate 2015.06.29 all Set of packages required to run MATE ii mint-user-guide-mate 17.1.0 all The Linux Mint User Guide - MATE Edition ii python-mate-menu 1.12.0-1+betsy amd64 implementation of the freedesktop menu specification for MATE (Python bindings)
Created attachment 96218 [details] Screenshots of the window artefact
I presume this is a display problem related to the Mate desktop, I very much doubt this is an Amarok problem. Could be that your desktop doesn't handle KDE applications properly. Could you please report this to your distribution and give a link to the bug report here? I tried again here using the Ubuntu desktop Unity and still don't see that problem. So not reproducible with KDE 4.14.2, nor Unity 7.3.1, I really think this is MATE specific.
sadly no feedback about a downstream bug report...
Also seeing the same issue. It applies with any application, not just Firefox. The issue seems to be exclusive to Amarok, I haven't seen it affecting other programs Amarok Version 2.8.0 Using KDE 4.14.2 Mate is v1.12 Rosa, and again, latest versions of everything for Mint
(In reply to Tadhg from comment #6) > Also seeing the same issue. It applies with any application, not just > Firefox. The issue seems to be exclusive to Amarok, I haven't seen it > affecting other programs > > Amarok Version 2.8.0 > Using KDE 4.14.2 > > Mate is v1.12 Rosa, and again, latest versions of everything for Mint As mentioned before: please report this to Mate, as it is not reproducible on other desktops, so it must be a Mate specific problem. Please provide the link to the downstream bug report.
I didn't find an existing issue that corresponds, so I opened this one https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/issues/257
(In reply to Tadhg from comment #8) > I didn't find an existing issue that corresponds, so I opened this one > https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/issues/257 Thank you, added to the report. Is Mate really using Github? Oh my ...