Launcher sitting behind windows

[Stephen Rees-Carter]

After an upgrade I logged in to discover that the launcher (and application switcher, etc) are all appearing under the active windows.

See the attached screenshot for a good idea of the bug.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.8.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
Date: Tue Aug 16 19:46:39 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-08-13 09:59:34.142096
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: vboxhost, 4.1.2, 3.0.0-8-generic, x86_64: installed
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21dd]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110812)
MachineType: LENOVO 7859CTO
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-8-generic root=UUID=2b5165d2-f495-4edb-8a9c-eb617417d459 ro quiet splash noapic vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-13 (3 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/07/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 8GET33WW (1.10 )
dmi.board.name: 7859CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8GET33WW(1.10):bd06/07/2011:svnLENOVO:pn7859CTO:pvrThinkPadL520:rvnLENOVO:rn7859CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 7859CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad L520
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.5.0-0ubuntu5
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu13
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 805087, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.