notify-send issues signals that can be presented by any software that listens for them. The software displaying notifications in your second screenshot appears to be gnome-shell. gnome-shell also displays the dialog in your first screenshot.
However, since the bug is affecting only parts of individual text characters, and only in a VM, it’s probably not a problem in gnome-shell but rather in the particular VM software you’re using. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to notify-osd in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1826053 Title: Notify send is unreadable Status in notify-osd package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Notify-send message are written to the screen using a white background with randomly white or light-green fonts. Often they are completely unreadable. see screenshots. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: notify-osd (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-13.14-generic 5.0.6 Uname: Linux 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Tue Apr 23 15:44:58 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-11-08 (166 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20181107) SourcePackage: notify-osd UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/1826053/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
