Ubuntu
unity-2d package

Unity or Ubuntu dock launcher with auto-hide using mouse is unreliable

Bug #996158 reported by Radoslaw
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Unity
Confirmed
Undecided
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unity (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
unity-2d (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

Using mouse with unity-panel auto-hide mode makes the mouse to shift left while pointer stays in place (at the left edge). The effect is your mouse is shifting (every time you acces launcher) to the left until there is no space on the table and you have to put it up and move to the right. This is very inconvinient and makes usage of the unity launcher unreliable. The issue was introduced with the new launcher reveal mechanizm when you have to "push" the pointer do the left edge to make launcher re-appear. It happened after upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04. The bug affects unity and unity-2d.

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Radoslaw (radraw)
description: updated
summary: - unity-2d launcher with auto-hide using mouse in unreliable
+ Unity launcher with auto-hide using mouse is unreliable
Radoslaw (radraw)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : Re: Unity launcher with auto-hide using mouse is unreliable

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

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)
Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Radoslaw (radraw) wrote :

Sadly this, now 7 years old bug affects also brand new Ubuntu 18.04 (non-Unity, Gnome based) desktop.

Radoslaw (radraw)
summary: - Unity launcher with auto-hide using mouse is unreliable
+ Unity or Ubuntu dock launcher with auto-hide using mouse is unreliable
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The bug here is about unity, please open a new ticket if you have similar issues in newer versions not using Unity

no longer affects: gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu)
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Radoslaw (radraw) wrote :

The same issue in the new, non-Unity desktop: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock/+bug/1813212

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