Firefox refuses to accept focus when unminimized by apport

[Alistair Buxton]

Binary package hint: unity

To reproduce:

1. Open firefox with some tabs.
2. In a shell do "ubuntu-bug unity" or similar.
3. Go through all the steps.
4. When it says "Send report to developers?" select yes and then quickly minimize firefox.

Apport will unminimize firefox but firefox will not accept focus. The window border remains unselected and focus stays with the previously focussed window no matter how much I click on firefox. Minimizing and then restoring firefox manually allows me to focus the window and type in it again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.10-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
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: Mon Apr 25 04:41:39 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110422)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, that seems rather a compiz issue, can you confirm in a classic GNOME session?

[Marco Biscaro (marcobiscaro2112)]

Maybe a duplicate of bug #755697 (problem with focus stealing prevention).

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

I just had this happen during normal use (nothing was bringing firefox to the foreground, it was already maximized.)

Since I couldn't focus the firefox window, I also could not unmaximize it, because the window controls are not show on maximized but unfocussed windows.