Bug#565802: scrambles various menus and windows

[Jan Hauke Rahm]

Package: gnome-shell
Version: 2.28.1~git20091125-1
Severity: important

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Hi,

this is one of these bug reports we all don't wanna see: gnome-shell
somehowdoes things wrong and I don't even know how to describe it
properly. Unfortunately screenshots aren't available because I only get
a black picture whenever I try. I don't know if blaming gnome-shell is
correct anyways, yet it all worked before using it, so here we go...

I use pidgin; when I click on its icon in the panel, the window opens
but it's barely readable since it's kinda, well, sloped. The window's
content is devided into about 3 or 4 parts which are sloped from the
upper right to the lower left, making it impossible to recognize the
icons. A slight movement of the window corrects everything.
The same behavior is reproducable with small windows that pop up, e.g.
to enter the password for the gnome keyring, or to shutdown the
computer. Also context menus are like this (those not devided cause
they're much shorter than the pidgin window), which makes handling the
desktop quite difficult.

Another issue which came up at the same time is a little shift when
scrolling windows, mostly noticable in iceweasel. You scroll a page down
and when you move your mouse curser over links they all jump a bit up or
down. Scrolling just a bit again resolves the problem.

So, give me instructions on how to help, I'm willing to but right now I
don't have the slightest clue. Hope you at least understand what I mean.

Hauke

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-shell depends on:
ii  gconf2              2.28.0-1             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gir1.0-clutter-1.0  1.0.8-1              GObject introspection data for the
ii  gir1.0-freedesktop  0.6.7-3              Introspection data for some FreeDe
ii  gir1.0-glib-2.0     0.6.7-3              Introspection data for GLib, GObje
ii  gir1.0-gtk-2.0      0.6.5-3              GObject introspection data for the
ii  gir1.0-mutter-2.28  2.28.1~git20091208-1 GObject introspection data for Mut
ii  libatk1.0-0         1.28.0-1             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6               2.10.2-5             Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2           1.8.8-2              The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libclutter-1.0-0    1.0.8-1              Open GL based interactive canvas l
ii  libcroco3           0.6.2-1              a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.2.16-2             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.82-2               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1      2.8.0-2              generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6        2.3.11-1             FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4         2.28.0-1             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgirepository1.0- 0.6.7-3              Library for handling GObject intro
ii  libgjs0             0.4-4                Mozilla-based javascript bindings 
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [li 7.6.1-1              A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.22.4-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2- 2.28.2-1             Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2      2.28.0.1-3           an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0  0.10.25-4+b1         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.18.6-1             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libmozjs2d          1.9.1.6-1            The Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScrip
ii  libnspr4-0d         4.8.2-1              NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.26.2-1             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2          2.26.0-1             SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libstartup-notifica 0.10-1               library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6            2:1.3.3-1            X11 client-side library
ii  libxcomposite1      1:0.4.1-1            X11 Composite extension library
ii  libxdamage1         1:1.1.2-1            X11 damaged region extension libra
ii  libxext6            2:1.1.1-2            X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3          1:4.0.4-1            X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxml2             2.7.6.dfsg-1         GNOME XML library
ii  mesa-utils          7.6.1-1              Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities
ii  mutter              2.28.1~git20091208-1 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  pkg-config          0.22-1               manage compile and link flags for 
ii  python              2.5.4-5              An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-shell recommends:
ii  xserver-xephyr             2:1.7.3.902-1 nested X server

gnome-shell suggests no packages.

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