Task Switching between Workspaces Fails if Window placement overflows

[Lonnie Lee Best]

To reproduce this bug you must enable workspaces:
System Settings > Appearance > Behavior > Enable Workspaces.

Now, I'm assuming you have firefox open in this current workspace (from where you are reading this message). It doesn't matter if it is chrome, but later we will switch back to this web browser.

Hit ctrl-alt-downArrow to switch to another workspace.

Launch Gimp (for example) into this new workspace
SuperKey > type "gimp" (no quotes) and hit the enter key.

Now, make sure that gimp's window is not maximized, and then move the window so that any part of is clipped by the workspace, meaning, drag the window down so that the bottom 10 pixels of the window are not viewable on the workspace.

Now, on the launcher bar, click on an icon that is open in another workspace (firefox or chromium for example). Then try to go back to gimp by clicking on its launcher icon.

For me, unless the workspace encapsulates the gimp window 100%, I am not able to switch back to gimp by clicking its launcher icon.

I was using Gimp as an example, but the same is true for any other application whose window is not completely encapsulated by the workspace that it primarily resides.

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: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Jan 14 13:27:15 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-23 (52 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)