Compiz Grid plugin square pops up randomly on left side of screen
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Bug Description
The orange outline box that shows when you drag the window to the side of the screen is showing up randomly when I'm not dragging anything. Sometimes it goes away be toggling Expo on and off, but it often just comes back as soon as I move the mouse. The only thing that reliably fixes it is a unity --replace. I'm not sure how to reproduce it. I may try turning off the grid plugin, and see if it stops happening.
Ubuntu 11.10 64 Bit
Unity Desktop
Adapter: EVGA Nvidia GeForce GT 430
Unity 4.22.0-0ubuntu3 0
Note: I have not yet had experienced this problem on my laptop, which has onboard Intel graphics. Of course, that doesn't mean it won't.
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This usually occurs on the left side of the screen, but also occurs on the right side sometimes when initiating expo edge.
It would be great if you could access the bug reporting application from dash by typing something like "bug" or "bug report." I tried that but nothing came up, so I just logged in and posted the bug here. I'll remember to use apport in the future. Thanks.
Turning down the thresholds in the edges tab of the Compiz Grid plugin seems to have alleviated this problem. I'll report back if it reemerges. I turned them all down to 1, but found that snapping on the right side of the screen didn't work. The threshold for the right edge had to be set to 4 in order for it to work.
I should note that I didn't have this problem in Natty, so this bug should be categorized under Oneiric. A similiar bug is reported in Bug #862260, though it's not quite the same.