[ale] Odd behavior of windows

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 16:38 -0400, Steve Brown wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Chris Fowler
> <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
>         I'm having this odd behavior of windows in Ubuntu 11.04
>         
>         Sometimes they will not display.  I get a border and white.
> 
> I've seen this type of behavior when using 3D acceleration with an ATI
> card I had awhile ago. It seemed to be pretty common at that time to
> experience this when using something like Compiz. The solution I used
> back then, if I remember correctly, was to do what you described or
> restart X, neither of which is optimal. I would also try, if you have
> 3D acceleration and settings enabled, to apt-get
> compizconfig-settings-manager and maybe turn some of the effects
> off/down. That may atleast lower the frequency of this occurring. 
> HTH,
> -Steve Brown

Yea, I don't think comp is in 11.04.  I don't have the option to
configure it in Administration or Preferences.  I'm also seeing the same
issue where trying to view some flash videos in full screen result in a
white screen.