Comment 6 for bug 862231

This seems to have something to do with Compiz & Fullscreen requests. I created a brand new user and it did the same thing. However I tested at home (on a much bigger screen, dual head Nvidia set-up for video playback) and couldn't reproduce.

Testing again (on new profile) and when changing to metacity (using --replace) the terminal displayed issues about a fullscreen window. Changed back to compiz and through CCSM disable "unredirect full screen windows" in OpenGL and Workarounds. This solved the bug. Re-enabled both settings and it still works as expected. If it re-appears I'll test again to see which work-around solved it.