MATE panel disappears

[sasht]

Hello!
I explore a problem with my panel.
I have installed a fresh copy of Linux Mint 17 Mate, 32-bit with LibreOffice 4.2.3.3, tango style of icons. Every time when I colorize some text in the LibreOffice Writer with Font Color, Highlighting or Background buttons and after this change the color of the text with the same button, my main panel with icons disappears.
On my notebook all works fine, but it is with other settings of controls. All other programs and settings are the same.
But when I change the settings of the controls of the PC, this bug remains. On the fresh installation, all worked fine and when I set this appearance, the problem appears.
The controls are Clearlooks, window borders - Metabox, icons - Mint-X-Dark.

pc:

00:00.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Host Bridge (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 USB 1.1 Controller (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 USB 2.0 Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:08.1 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev 10)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
02:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB363 SATA/IDE Controller (rev 02)
03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB363 SATA/IDE Controller (rev 02)


Thank you for your suggestions!

[eanfrid]

It is unfortunately a well-known bug with MATE: you must disable MATE window compositing to solve the problem.

[sasht]

"It is unfortunately a well-known bug with MATE: you must disable MATE window compositing to solve the problem."

Yes, I disabled Compositing and now all works well! Thank you!!!

[eanfrid]

Some news about this...

As a workaround for this problem I was using compton (fork of xcompmgr) for compositing instead of marco compositing.

I remembered however that I had enabled "strict" behavior of the window manager in dconf-editor since a long time ago. So for testing, I reverted to loose behavior (workarounds enabled) and re-activated marco compositing... and at least here, it seems to be enough to solve the problem with compositing too. Hence no need for compton/xcompmgr.

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Edit: I was wrong; it just did it again. So, I revert back to compton for compositing