Comment 5 for bug 845719

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Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz) wrote : Re: [Bug 845719] Re: compiz and X can disagree on the stacking order

Do you have a way to reproduce this?
On Oct 5, 2011 5:50 AM, "Nick Moffitt" <email address hidden> wrote:
> This does not appear to have fixed the problem. I am current with
> oneric and am in a situation right now where transient windows appear
> behind the app windows that own them. I'm lucky my terminals are
> translucent, or I wouldn't be able to find the "Open Link" entry on the
> context menu. This goes beyond the context menus from the launcher!
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/845719
>
> Title:
> compiz and X can disagree on the stacking order
>
> Status in Compiz Core:
> Fix Released
> Status in Unity:
> Fix Released
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> This is a meta-bug to track all of the stack sync issues
>
> * It is possible for a window to issue a ConfigureRequest in between
ConfigureRequests internally and when we update the stack causing the
ConfigureRequest in between the temporarily updated stack to be processed
and given an invalid position
> * It is possible for synethetic ConfigureNotify events sent to core in
order to update frame windows can cause the stacking order to become invalid
> * It is possible for created windows to invalidate the stack
>
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