Comment 13 for bug 1008508

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Martin Wildam (mwildam) wrote : Re: Clicking on the panel raises a maximized window that is behind the current one

After reading Bug #723882 I think that this is a separate problem.

See my screenshot screen025.png.

Firefox is maximized in background.
Nautilus in front has the focus and accordingly the panel shows "Home Folder" (well that is a separate issue that it does not show the correct title - however it belongs to Nautilus).

In this situation whereever I click on the top panel Nautilus is kept in foreground.

So a left click on top edge does nothing - it does not change anything - at least not in Window order!

Now assign in ccsm (CompizConfigSettingsManager) in Desktop Wall to use left mouse-click at top edge to switch to desktop on the left.

Now switching from a desktop on the right to the one in screen025.png (being on the left) by left-clicking onto the top edge brings the maximized Firefox window to the front. That behaviour is completely unexpected. And it doesn't either occur when left-clicking on the top panel while staying on the screen025.png sample desktop.

It very looks like that the left-click - after switching to the desktop on the left is not fully consumed and the maximized window somehow consumes that left-click and bringing itself to front (which is then the logical reaction after left-click on the window title bar - which in the maximized state is equal to the panel somehow).

The point is that the active window on screen025.png is Nautilus - the non-maximized window. The desired behaviour from Bug #723882 applies for the situation where the active window is maximized and describes the desired behaviour under that circumstance when the panel display belongs to the active and maximized window. This is _not_ the case here in screen025.png!