Pressing super while in a fullscreen window doesn't work well

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

Binary package hint: unity

When you're in a fullscreen window, like Totem or PokerTH, if you press super (or any super-combination) doesn't work. It should either show the lenses and launcher on top of the fullscreen window, or restore the window and then display the lenses and launcher.

At present, if you're watching a video in fullscreen in Totem, if you press super, then the dash gets focus and the mouse pointer is visible, but the video is still the only visible thing on the screen. If you then click somewhere on the screen in order to get the mousepointer to go away, then you activate whatever is activated in the dash. This is confusing.

[Fernando P Silveira (fernandopsilveira)]

It happens with me, too.

It's even worst if you're using Firefox on fullscreen mode (F11) and press 'Super': the Dash comes out invisible but get focus, so you can accidentally open another Firefox window, which is in fullscreen mode, but it's "not".

This is really confusing...

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad (joerlend.schinstad-deactivatedaccount)]

Just to show it very clearly, in case there is any doubt. I'll use gnome-terminal since it's semi transparent by default.

1) Open gnome-terminal and open a few tabs in it. You use alt+num to switch between tabs.
2) Press F11 to view gnome-terminal in fullscreen.
3) Press super and pretend you really wanted to press alt in order to switch between tabs, but hit the wrong key. This has happened to me quite a few times.
4) Observe that the dash is opened in the background and receives focus.

Even in this case, where you can actually see the dash pop up, it can cause a little bit of frustration. When the window isn't transparent, like Firefox or Totem, it becomes very confusing, and as Mr Silveira says, it's very easy to inadvertently start applications you didn't intend to run, specially Firefox. Then suddenly you have different instances of Firefox where tabs are placed "randomly" (it's easy for a user not to notice that a new instance has been started and therefore will receive new URLs from other applications, for instance) in different ones.

This clearly isn't the intended behaviour. The same goes for other lenses too, of course, like super+f and super+a. But since the dash is opened by a single press of super, it's much more annoying than with the other ones.

[Eric Appleman (erappleman)]

still getting this with f11 fullscreen apps like firefox and gnome-terminal

[Eric Appleman (erappleman)]

*in oneiric daily