Unity: SMPlayer window creeps upward past global menu bar when unmaximized multiple times

[Eric Appleman]

Binary package hint: unity

I find this annoying because there is no way to retrieve the SMPlayer windowbar.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.6.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.35-genusername 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
Date: Thu Mar 17 01:14:55 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101229)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Eric: as a work-around, you should be able to Alt-drag in the centre of the window and move the whole window downwards.

I think this might be a dup of another bug where repeated maximising and unmaximising gradually walks the window rightwards across the screen aswell (and eventually off the edge of the screen), but I can't find that.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

nb. Bug I was thinking of was bug #722830 ("Windows creep cross the screen with ALT+TAB") before anyone goes hunting for it; so this is probably different.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

Does this only happen with SMPlayer?

[Eric Appleman (erappleman)]

As far as I know, yes.

I can't replicate with other applications, Qt or otherwise.

[Eric Appleman (erappleman)]

BTW, Alt+Drag does function as a workaround.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

This has been an issue in compiz since the move to 0.9.x series see bug 716521

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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