Thanks for the extra feedback. I've communicated this bug to NVIDIA, and they confirm it is due to a recent change in the driver, and I expect we'll see a fix in an updated driver.
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu Quantal) Status: In Progress => Triaged ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu Quantal) Assignee: Chris Halse Rogers (raof) => (unassigned) ** Also affects: xorg-server (Ubuntu Precise) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu Precise) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu Precise) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu Precise) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu Quantal) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu Precise) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu Quantal) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu Precise) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu Precise) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: unity Status: Confirmed => Invalid ** Changed in: nvidia-drivers-ubuntu Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu Quantal) Assignee: Alberto Milone (albertomilone) => (unassigned) ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu Precise) Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical X.org (canonical-x) ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu Quantal) Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical X.org (canonical-x) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1057000 Title: [Ubuntu 12.04.1/12.10] nVidia drivers 304.51 prevent autohidden Unity launcher from revealing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-ubuntu/+bug/1057000/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs