Issue with windows not displaying in Ubuntu Trusty 14.04

[Jon Irwin]

I've got a Lenovo All-in-One pc and recently upgraded from the previous long term distribution.

I've hit on the following problem. When a sub-window of say Firefox is called up, the window loads, and I can see it in the quick scroll function that it has loaded. However, I can't then access this new window. I can close it down using the open window tab function.

With Gimp, this means that I can't currently use it. With Librecalc when I tried to do a pivot table I can't access the options window that loads up with the command options, although I can see it scrolling through the open windows with Alt+Tab.

Seems to be an issue irrespective of the programme I'm trying to use.

Grateful for any help you can offer. I did try to use apport but that crashed when I was trying to submit it.

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[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

Can you write steps how to reproduce bug?

[Jon Irwin (jon-irwin-f)]

Steps:

Open LibreCalc - ok
Open spreadsheet with data - ok
Highlight data - ok
Click on Data>Pivot Table>create - ok
Select source window appears - ok
Click on OK for current selection - ok
LibreCalc then frosts over as the pivot table window should be front of
screen and accessible.

All I can do now is use Alt + Tab to preview this window and shut it down.

Hope this is useful.

On 25 October 2014 22:31, Alberts Muktupāvels <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Can you write steps how to reproduce bug?
>
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> Title:
> Issue with windows not displaying in Ubuntu Trusty 14.04
>
> Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I've got a Lenovo All-in-One pc and recently upgraded from the
> previous long term distribution.
>
> I've hit on the following problem. When a sub-window of say Firefox is
> called up, the window loads, and I can see it in the quick scroll
> function that it has loaded. However, I can't then access this new
> window. I can close it down using the open window tab function.
>
> With Gimp, this means that I can't currently use it. With Librecalc
> when I tried to do a pivot table I can't access the options window
> that loads up with the command options, although I can see it
> scrolling through the open windows with Alt+Tab.
>
> Seems to be an issue irrespective of the programme I'm trying to use.
>
> Grateful for any help you can offer. I did try to use apport but that
> crashed when I was trying to submit it.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/1384250/+subscriptions
>

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

I can not reproduce this. Pivot table opens in front of LibreCalc window, don't see any problem. :( Maybe this is not direct metacity bug...

Ubuntu in default session does not use metacity. What session do you use? If default then this could be bug in compiz.

[Jon Irwin (jon-irwin-f)]

I use default - so it could be in compiz.

I'm technically minded enough to make a real hash of things, but struggle
to pin things down to be able to fix them. Should I raise this as a new
bug, or amend the existing one?

Thanks,
Jon

On 3 November 2014 13:09, Alberts Muktupāvels <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I can not reproduce this. Pivot table opens in front of LibreCalc
> window, don't see any problem. :( Maybe this is not direct metacity
> bug...
>
> Ubuntu in default session does not use metacity. What session do you
> use? If default then this could be bug in compiz.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1384250
>
> Title:
> Issue with windows not displaying in Ubuntu Trusty 14.04
>
> Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I've got a Lenovo All-in-One pc and recently upgraded from the
> previous long term distribution.
>
> I've hit on the following problem. When a sub-window of say Firefox is
> called up, the window loads, and I can see it in the quick scroll
> function that it has loaded. However, I can't then access this new
> window. I can close it down using the open window tab function.
>
> With Gimp, this means that I can't currently use it. With Librecalc
> when I tried to do a pivot table I can't access the options window
> that loads up with the command options, although I can see it
> scrolling through the open windows with Alt+Tab.
>
> Seems to be an issue irrespective of the programme I'm trying to use.
>
> Grateful for any help you can offer. I did try to use apport but that
> crashed when I was trying to submit it.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/1384250/+subscriptions
>