Clickable areas of previously active window remains on 'Show Desktop'

Bug #836325 reported by Anders Feder
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This bug affects 9 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
High
Sam Spilsbury
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Sam Spilsbury

Bug Description

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a window with clickable areas (e.g. a browser showing links).
2. Alt+Tab to 'Show Desktop'.
3. Click in an area corresponding to one of the clickable areas of the now hidden window.

What happens:
The hidden window registers the click as if it was addressed to its clickable area. (Imagine a situation where the user unknowingly clicks a hidden button labelled "Format harddrive".)

What should happen:
The desktop should receive the click, not the hidden window.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
status: New → Fix Committed
assignee: nobody → Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 4.18.0
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

cant find the branch but I am pretty sure Sam fixed it in trunk.

Anders Feder (afeder)
description: updated
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package unity - 4.18.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (4.18.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
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      (LP: #836325)
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    - Start ...

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status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

see the attached video. using unity 4.18.0-0ubuntu1

Changed in unity:
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
tags: added: regression-release
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-11.10
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Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz) wrote :

Needs to be fixed for a corner case.

Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 4.18.0 → 4.20.0
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

sorry :-/

Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → In Progress
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → In Progress
Jason Smith (jassmith)
Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package unity - 4.20.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (4.20.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release + cherry-pick:
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      (LP: #855252)
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      displays (LP: #83813...

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Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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zarquon42 (zarquon42) wrote :

I'm not sure if my bug is a manifestation of this one:
using Alt+Tab or Strg+Alt+Tab do hide and unhide my open windows works, but after beeing unhidden, the windows decoration (the black bar on top) - and only the decorations - remain unclickable - e.g. like in the video above posted by omer at 0:22. If an application is at the location behind the window’s decoration that one is reacting on this click - which can be annoying. To move a window, I first have to click into the "body" and then it is responding as usual.

I have unity-4.20.0-0ubuntu2 installed.

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zarquon42 (zarquon42) wrote :

Today I noticed that sometimes after unhiding the desktop (ctrl-alt-d), the click on the window in front resulted in the reaction of a minimized window.: clicking on firefox opened my thunderbird address-book.

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Launchpad (launch-pad-net) wrote :

I have unity 4.22.0 and I have still this problem. Alt + Tab and then 'show desktop' does get focus on the desktop but does not hide the windows.

Also, Ctrl + Alt + d does not work.

Very annoying!

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Rohit Saraf (rohit-kumar-saraf) wrote :

Yes. This is affecting me since the very beginning and irritates me often.

Also, when you minimize the last window, it takes a lot of time to minimize and the launcher still behaves as if that window has the focus.

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