gnome panel appears over fullscreen windows when changing viewport

[Davide Lasagna]

Binary package hint: compiz

Fresh Karmic Koala install.
Compiz version is 0.8.4-0ubuntu2.1

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Steps to reproduce the problem:

1) open a terminal in viewport 1, press f11 to make it full screen;

2) switch to viewport 2, open any another app, e.g. another terminal;

3) switch back to viewport 1.

 Expected behaviour: The terminal in vp 1 should be fullscreen, with nothing above it.
 Actual behaviour: The gnome-panels appears over the (fullscreen) terminal.

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This behaviour occurs for every kind of app, not only for gnome-terminal.
This behaviour does not appear with metacity.

Cheers,

Davide

[Tomislav Marčinković (tmarcink)]

Did anyone find a solution for that problem? I'm running Lucid Lynx (10.04) now, and I still have the same problem!

[Jonathan Jogenfors (etnoy)]

I also have the same problem in Lucid. For me it's a papercut and should have quite a simple fix.
The bug makes it infeasible to use a fullscreen terminal in one viewport, as the panels cover the command input line when you switch the viewport back.

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

This bug is also annoying when you have dual monitors. You open a video player on one monitor and fullscreen it. But as soon as the video window loses focus (because you clicked some window on the other monitor) the gnome-panel appears above the video player. It happens with all fullscreen windows as soon as they lose focus.

[peddy (peddy22)]

This bug is still evident in a fresh, fully updated install of 10.10. Please fix!

[peddy (peddy22)]

I fixed this by adding "state=fullscreen" to the "above" category in the Window Rules plugin. I am marking this bug as invalid because it is a design "feature" that gnome-panel is excepted from the rule that fullscreen windows are above all.