Do appears under fullscreen windows when using Metacity or Compiz

[Chris Halse Rogers]

As summary. Do appears underneath fullscreen windows.

(09.03.47| andywatts)) Is there anyway to make gnome-do display on top of all other windows. If I have a fullscreen gnome-terminal or firefox, gnome-do open behind them. tia
(09.04.19| RAOF)) andywatts: THat's a good point.
(09.04.30| RAOF)) I hadn't noticed that before!
(09.05.04|*conundrum)) doesn't use fullscreen apps that much.
(09.05.09| conundrum)) Isn't do's Window class splash?
(09.05.13| conundrum)) Shouldn't that go on top? :o
(09.05.35| RAOF)) Yes, and probably?
(09.05.41| RAOF)) Metacity doesn't treat it like that, though.
(09.05.43| andywatts)) I'm pressing F11 in gnome-terminal and firefox, btw
(09.05.49| conundrum)) Hm.
(09.05.58| cszikszoy)) same for me
(09.05.59| conundrum)) Let me see what compiz does.
(09.06.01| RAOF)) So, that's a bug. Do you have a launchpad account?
(09.06.14| conundrum)) Yup, same thing.
(09.06.24| conundrum)) Guess we just need to set Do to always on top, as well?
(09.06.29| RAOF)) Guess so.
(09.06.32| Cimi_)) RAOF, y
(09.06.40| conundrum)) No, that won't do it.
(09.06.52| conundrum)) I just set Xchat to always on top and fullscreen firefox overwrote it.

This may be non-trivial!

[Parthiban Balasubramanian (parthiban-bls)]

Unable to reproduce bug.

Tried gnome-terminal and firefox in fullscreen (F11) and gnome-do came up on top. On both compiz and metacity, without any 'always-on-top' setting for gnome-do.

Ubuntu 8.10
Do 0.8.0
Do-plugins 0.8.0.1

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Whereas I can still reproduce this, with both compiz 0.7.8 and metacity in Jaunty.

Hm. This might just be a problem with un-redirecting fullscreen windows. Maybe this should be forwarded to compiz & metacity?

[Neil Broadley (scaine)]

Is this related to confusion over Docky?

F11 toggle on Firefox, Gnome-Terminal or SSHerminator will ALL cover gnome-do Docky here, on Intrepid/Compiz/Do 0.8. Changing the compiz setting "Unredirect Fullscreen Windows" to on (the default, I turn it off) had no effect.

But, ff I summon Do, then Docky summon mode does pop up over my fullscreen Firefox, but the dock will vanish back under the window when dismissed.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

It doesn't seem to depend on interface here; summoning Docky doesn't
bring it to the front, either.

[Gueorgui Tcherednitchenko (gueorgui)]

I can reproduce this bug running Jaunty Beta with maximus (maximizes all windows by default, to save space on my netbook's small screen).

The weird thing is that when I call up Do the first time, it does appear under the full-screen windows (but is still "in focus" -- i can input commands into it), but the second time I call Do it comes to the forefront without any problems.

[Bart Rose (jbrose3)]

I am experiencing the same as the last commenter, minus using maximus. If I keep calling Do, it will eventually come to the foreground. This just started in the last few days.

[Bart Rose (jbrose3)]

Fixed with latest compiz update.

[h4p0 (h4p0n3)]

On my laptop was a compiz matter (focus steal activeted at medium effect)
To solve this I've put "(class=Do ) & title=Run Application"
(because also the "run application (alt+f2)" window gave me the same problem)
in ccsm -> general options->Focus&Raise Behaviour -> Focus Prevention Windows

The only "problem" now is that:
to reach the Docky in a fullscreen app (e.g firefox) I've to
1 - Press the key-combo to reach the search status
2 - Press ESC to reach the docky functions

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

I'm marking this invalid as we're doing what we should, it's up to the window manager to handle this correctly.