Grid-placed window goes under the Unity panel

[Andrey Gelman]

Happens to applications designed to integrate with Unity global menu.
Tested with gnome-terminal, firefox.
Reproduction:
Maximize application window - everything as expected.
Half-maximize towards the top of the screen (Alt-Ctrl-KP8).
Expected behaviour would be to produce half-window with (kill/minimize/maximize) buttons on its border.
Actual (bogus) behaviour: the window is indeed half-maximized, but the buttons are integrated with the screen frame as the window were maximized.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.18.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-35.55-generic 3.2.34
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-35-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15.1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,grid,mousepoll,regex,vpswitch,snap,gnomecompat,place,wall,move,resize,imgpng,animation,expo,session,workarounds,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
Date: Tue Jan 1 20:18:11 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2013-01-01 (0 days ago)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Are you sure the window is not just partially under the panel? What happens if you hold Alt and drag the window down?

[Andrey Gelman (andrey-gelman)]

Hi !
Possibly ...
Holding Alt and dragging the window down deserves a separate bug report :(

If I press the workspace switcher, the desktop zooms out, and indeed
looks like the top of the window goes out from below the top panel.
However, this is still bogus - the window should not go under the top
panel, should it ?

Notice, that when we experience this 'misbehaviour', moving the mouse
over the top panel unveils the menu, but does not unveil the
'close/minimize/maximize' buttons.

On 01/03/2013 10:52 AM, Daniel van Vugt wrote:
> Are you sure the window is not just partially under the panel? What
> happens if you hold Alt and drag the window down?
>
> ** Also affects: unity
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Changed in: unity
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>