Ubuntu
gnome-shell package

Minimized windows appears behind focused on clicking dropdown menu

Bug #1869390 reported by Carlos on 2020-03-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1868990: Various actions produce images of applications running on all work-spaces on the current work-space. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-shell (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

It's happening to me in GNOME. I don't know if it would occur in KDE, Xfce, Budgie...

When I click in a dropdown menu (example that do this: Sound device picker in gnome-control-center, example that don't: the hamburger menu in nautilus/terminal) the minimized windows un-minimize and appear behind the focused window, although you can't control most of the window (maximize and close works, clicking the icon in dock makes it usable).

Steps to reproduce:

1. Minimize all windows
2. Open gnome-control-panel
3. Go to Appearance, for example.
4. Click a drop-down i.e. dock position.

Maximizing the window makes it maximize but minimize at the same time. Closing the window works. Minimize and the rest of the window simply doesn't work.

Using:
Description: Ubuntu Focal Fossa (development branch)
Release: 20.04

I have NVIDIA proprietary drivers (440.64).

What I expect:
Normal behavior, not to get the minimize window behind the focused window.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.36.0-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-18.22-generic 5.4.24
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu21
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Mar 27 16:53:38 2020
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-03-12 (15 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20200309)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.0-2ubuntu1
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Carlos (ratiosu-cct) wrote on 2020-03-27:

Dependencies.txt Edit (20.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GsettingsChanges.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ShellJournal.txt Edit (24.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
monitors.xml.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) on 2020-03-27

affects:

ubuntu → gnome-shell (Ubuntu)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-03-28:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Ljiljan Veselinovic (ljiljan-veselinovic) wrote on 2020-03-28:

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 Development Branch. I have experienced something similar. When you minimize one program's window, you cannot click on the window that is currently showed (i.e. the window that was under the minimized window). In order to activate it, you need to go to Activities or click on that application's icon on Ubuntu dock. For example, you open Files, LibreOffice and Google Chrome (in this order). You minimize Google Chrome, and then you cannot click on LibreOffice unless you click on the LibreOffice icon on Ubuntu dock.