Comment 3 for bug 760404

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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> 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