Window Previews compiz plugin applies in unity with the wrong offset

[Michele Giacomoli]

How to reproduce:

In ubuntu 11.04 while using unity launch enable the compiz plugin called "window previews".
Now launch an application. You can see that the preview of the window appear only if you place the cursor on the top-half of the icon, and on the bottom-half of the upper icon.

Expected result:
The preview of the window should appear when you put your mouse on every point of the relative icon

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

The window previews plugin is not part of the default Unity experience, as such this isn't a task that the Canonical Unity team will work on, but a community patch is welcomed.

[florin (florin-arjocu)]

I have no idea if there will be some fix soon, but I'm attaching 2 screenshots that might help those who don't experience this bug.

[florin (florin-arjocu)]

And the second screenshot.

[Michele Giacomoli (michele-giacomoli)]

It seems it's fixed in Ubuntu 12.04, on my machine at least. Can someone else confirm this?

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

The offset looks like it is fixed here, too. There are other problems with it though - you need to restart unity because turning previews on stops the un-hide part of the auto-hide feature from working, and previews aren't shown for some applications, like firefox and chromium. And where the preview does appear for multi-window apps, only the first window is shown.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

If the offset is fixed, then this bug will be closed. Please report new bugs dealing with those other issues, Rocko. Thanks!