Minimize animation occurs behind other windows (should be in front)

Bug #879659 reported by Juraj Vajda
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Compiz
Fix Released
Medium
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Compiz Main Plugins
Expired
Medium
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compiz (Ubuntu)
Expired
Medium
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Precise
Expired
Medium
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Bug Description

lets say when you minimize window on your desktop in ubuntu what happends.. the window will minimize in the unity dock... but in Compiz Manager u can add an animation to the minimizing effect ...for example Magic Lamp, so your windows will minimize with nice Magic Lamp effect.. but when you open more windows on your desktop and you minimize a window,you expect to see that Magic Lamp effect...but you DONT, because the minimize effecet will play in behind all other windows and not in foreground..so that minimizing effect should be played in foreground all other windows for you to see the effect and not in background all other windows.

PICTURE: the window "Documents" was in foreground when i clicked on minimize.. but as you can see the minimizing is playing on the background .. so if you have some maximized window it will play behind them ..so you will actually not see that your window is minimizing...

i tried it on a different laptop (Virtual Machine) ..fresh install Ubuntu 11.10 + newest updates (compiz also) and it does the same thing...

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Juraj Vajda (juraj-vajda) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

This appears to be a window ordering/stacking problem. When you minimize a window, an alternative window gets raised before the animation even starts. So the window being animated isn't actually the top-most window during its minimize animation.

summary: - windows minimizing animation plays in background
+ Minimize animation occurs behind other windows (should be in front)
Changed in compiz-animation-plugin:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Valentin (valentin-stn) wrote :

It's an ugly bug and i think it's in Ubuntu since 11.10. This bug also affects alpha 2 of Precise Pangolin.

Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in compiz-animation-plugin:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
affects: compiz-animation-plugin → compiz-plugins-main
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Valentin (valentin-stn) wrote :

This bug is going to be fixed until Ubuntu 12.04?

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Sorry, no one knows if developers will have time to get to this bug before 12.04.

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Bence Lukács (lukacs-bence1) wrote :

Also affects me on Precise Beta 1 with compiz 0.9.7.0.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

This one, seems fixed to me in fully upto date precise + unity staging ppa; tested on two different machines.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

I can't reproduce this in 12.04 any more either (compiz 0.9.7.4). Can anyone?

Changed in compiz-plugins-main:
status: Triaged → Incomplete
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Valentin (valentin-stn) wrote :

Fixed for me. Thank you!

Changed in compiz:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Compiz Main Plugins because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in compiz-plugins-main:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for compiz (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for compiz (Ubuntu Precise) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Incomplete → Expired
Valentin (valentin-stn)
Changed in compiz:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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