popup menus float on top of other windows

[Martin Pool]

Binary package hint: unity

Unity (or compiz, or something) seems to have a persistent problem where popup menus float above all other windows on the screen. They ought to be z-ordered along with their owning window.

For instance I can easily reproduce this by starting hamster-applet, getting its suggestion popup to come up, then switching to another window and dragging that window on top. See the screenshot.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

It's kind of strange this is orange tinted; I guess the screen shot program has somehow taken a screenshot of its own selection rectangle.

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

That's actually the intended behaviour. Especially for FFM cases it
means that you can't see the menu or combobox in the case that the
window is not auto-raised :)

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Martin Pool <email address hidden> wrote:
> It's kind of strange this is orange tinted; I guess the screen shot
> program has somehow taken a screenshot of its own selection rectangle.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/760404
>
> Title:
>  popup menus float on top of other windows
>
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: unity
>
>  Unity (or compiz, or something) seems to have a persistent problem
>  where popup menus float above all other windows on the screen.  They
>  ought to be z-ordered along with their owning window.
>
>  For instance I can easily reproduce this by starting hamster-applet,
>  getting its suggestion popup to come up, then switching to another
>  window and dragging that window on top.  See the screenshot.
>

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Sam Spilsbury

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

hm, ok. I don't have ffm mode on. It's inconsistent with every other
OS I can recall.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

It turns out that if you minimize the hamster window while the popup
is active, the popup menu is left floating free above the desktop.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

using the normal triage practice; setting unity bug status to incomplete and added to 'ayatana-design' as affected project