Unity panel shows global menu for the wrong window

[Mar-castelluccio]

I'll explain with an example.
I've an instance of Firefox running and an instance of Synaptic running.

If the focus is on Firefox and when I switch to Synaptic there is a modal dialog, when I close the modal dialog I'll see Synaptic but with the Firefox global menu.
I think the focus is given to the modal dialog, so when this is closed, the focus returns to the previous owner, that is Firefox in this case. Instead it should be given to the window currently on the screen (infact sometimes I close an application while I think I'm closing another one).

I think this happens only with modal dialogs, but I'm unsure.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Mar-castelluccio (mar-castelluccio)]

Omer, it is reproducible. My description contains the steps to recreate the bug.

[Mar-castelluccio (mar-castelluccio)]

Note that the same thing happens with other applications, Firefox and Synaptic were only an example.

[Timothy Arceri (t-fridey)]

To reproduce:

Open the preferences dialog in Synaptic. Then alt-tab to firefox. Then alt-tab back to Synaptic. Close the Preferences dialog. Now Firefox has control of the global menu instead of Synaptic.

[Giorgio Wicklein (giowck)]

Yes I can confirm this. With the steps Timothy provided, you will be able to reproduce this.

Now I understand why sometimes when hitting the close button the wrong application quits.

[Mar-castelluccio (mar-castelluccio)]

Maybe bug 802816 fixed this. I need to check.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I think you're right. I can't reproduce the bug with Unity 5.12. Assuming it's a duplicate of bug 802816.

[Seth Johnson (sethj)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. We have tried to recreate this on the latest release of Ubuntu and cannot reproduce it. This bug is being marked as Invalid. If you believe the problem to still exist in the latest version of Ubuntu please comment on why that is the case and change the bug status to NEW.

[Kai Mast (kai-mast)]

I have a problem like this in wily. Sometimes the global menu is not the menu of the focused window.

This seems to happen when one of the applications if maximized and the focused application isn't.

[Rodrigo Lledó (rodhos-hp)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. We have tried to recreate this on the latest release of Ubuntu, but cannot reproduce it. This bug is being marked as Invalid. If you believe the problem to still exist in the latest version of Ubuntu, please comment on why that is the case and change the bug status to NEW.

I've tried with one application maximized and still cannot reproduce this bug. Please add some additional info or a video showing the problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[monkeybrain2012 (kammon101)]

yes I can confirm that this is still present in wily. But only manifest if switch applications with the scale plugin + hot corner method and both applications are maximized and use local menu.

[monkeybrain2012 (kammon101)]

Ok. Figured it out. It is my fault. I have been playing with unity-tweak tool and set Window Manager > Additional > Window focus mode to "sloppy", changed back to "click" now it works as before. Sorry for the false alarm.