Focus change at drag and drop

[sunshinedaniel]

This occurs when you have two overlapping windows and want to drag some item from the behind window to the one in front. The focus changes to the behind window and brings it to the front as soon as the mouse button is pressed. Now the "drag window" overlaps the "drop window", most often (at least in my use case) blocking the area where you want to drop your item. It's hard to bring the "drop window" to the front again, without releasing the mouse key. The whole drag and drop would be easier, when the windows focus does not change until the release of the mouse button, when clicking on a dragable item. In Windows it works like this.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Greg Merchan (gregory-merchan)]

This problem has some history: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133047

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 29560, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Greg Merchan (gregory-merchan)]

This compiz bug is not a duplicate of that metacity bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[fcole90 (fcole90)]

As part of the big bug review for 16.04 LTS I have tested this on 15.10 and the bug is still there. I think this is a feature request rather than a bug.