Focus stays on a program in previous workspace

[zzarko]

When switching from workspace that has at least one open program to an empty workspace, keyboard focus stays with the active program from previous workspace:

1. Set the environment to use multiple workspaces (2x2 grid)
2. Make sure that you have one workspace with one or more programs, i.e. gedit, terminal, whatever, and another one without any programs
3. Switch to workspace with programs and make active one of the programs, i.e. terminal
4. Switch to empty workspace, press enter or type anything on the keyboard
5. Get back to the workspace with programs and you'll see that everything typed on the keyboard went to last active program

I think that this shouldn't happend, focus shouldn't stay on a program from another workspace.

This may be a serious if, for example, I had prepared some command in terminal, but I still didn't want to execute it before doing something else, or if I accidentaly pressed enter in a browser window and did something I didn't want (at least not yet).

I'm not sure if this counts as security vulnerability, but if not, please remove that tag and sorry for labeling it that way.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity 7.2.3+14.04.20140826-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-44.73-generic 3.13.11-ckt12
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-44-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Dec 26 06:51:43 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-02 (145 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

Can you still reproduce this?

[zzarko (zzarko-gmail)]

Just tested, not anymore :)

It seems that it was fixed.