windows opened by events don't get focus

[Nikolaus Filus]

Windows opened from attention events show multiple focus problems.

Examples:
* opening an URL from thunderbird starts firefox in background
* opening an empathy chat window, which starts a new conversation, from indicator menu

Issues:
* window does not appear in window list of alt-tab (static application switcher, next window)
* window does not get focus by clicking any part of the window or its decoration, input fields do not work and input is redirected to some other windows
* application menus do not work (eg. bookmark menus in toolbar in firefox)
* window does appear in (static application switcher, next window/all windows ) and in (scale plugin, window picker for all windows) and gets focus by selecting it

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.16-0ubuntu1~natty1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,grid,place,move,imgpng,snap,regex,compiztoolbox,gnomecompat,animation,vpswitch,resize,winrules,mousepoll,session,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,loginout,expo,ezoom,wall,staticswitcher,fade,addhelper,scale,unityshell]
Date: Fri Jul 15 10:15:36 2011
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-18 (87 days ago)

[Nikolaus Filus (nfilus)]

I've found that at least in the case of firefox menus, the events are not lost, but the menu is rendered in the background. Selecting all open windows at least once and minimizing/maximizing them, restored the correct behavior. This *may* be linked to some java windows workarounds for compiz, but not sure...

[Nikolaus Filus (nfilus)]

still valid in oneiric and relate to Bug #854122

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

This bug is quite old. Can someone tell me if they can still reproduce this problem? Seems like I would have noticed by now as I use firefox ;)

[Nikolaus Filus (nfilus)]

Unity/Compiz is still buggy as hell even with the latest updates - at least the firefox menu issue does not occur anymore and will open new reports about the remaining issues.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Tomislav (hefest)]

* opening an URL from thunderbird starts firefox in background

I see this as well on 11.10.

[Tomislav (hefest)]

Additionally, new windows started from the dash also don't get focus depending on what I run: the bug is 100% repeatable with Firefox and Nautilus and never appears with gnome-terminal. Seems like it might be the same bug.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

This is basically a duplicate of bug #627195, unfortunately due to timeouts I can't mark it accordingly, so closing it for now.