Well, I ended up trying the other Nvidia driver sooner rather than later because of this issue. Literally, the comp is nearly unusable otherwise: the Nvidia configuration screen is too big, resulting in a white out; the ubuntu system settings dialog is too big, resulting in a white out. Neither one of those can be made smaller than it already is. I'm not trying to be a prat here, but I do want to communicate that the symptoms we're experiencing are not trivial.
Now, downgrading the driver seems to have made a pretty big difference. I'm writing this in a maximized FF, and I can maximize Terminal and LibreOffice also (ditto for System settings). The Nvidia version appears to be 173 (I have no idea what the "recommended" one is - the dialog doesn't say). As before, let me know what additional information I can provide. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/758014 Title: ubuntu natty beta nvidia regression - maximize white hang -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
