Can't get out of fullscreen mode when two or more apps are fullscreen

[Ryan Fugger]

When two or more applications are fullscreen at the same time, F11 cycles the focus between two of them instead of ending the fullscreen mode. The workaround is to quit all but one of the fullscreen apps, and then F11 works to restore regular non-fullscreen mode.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Faced it just yesterday and was not sure what caused it, confirming it on fully updated Oneiric.

[lucke (lucke)]

I just posted https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/985865 . Then I thought of peeking at unity bugs and found this bug, which seems to be a duplicate of mine (my problem occurs only if two fullscreen windows are the last to have focus). The bug occurs if the unity plugin is disabled, so perhaps it belongs rather to compiz than to unity. Also, my description is perhaps fuller. I'm unsure which should be marked a duplicate, so I leave it to the knowledgeable.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Still reproducible in 12.04

[Chris Rainey (ckrzen)]

Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.
Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) reached end-of-life on May 9, 2013.

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