Unity menu bar isn't hide when window is maximized

[markusd112]

When I maximaze a window, the unity menu panel normally is hidden automatically. In the moment the menu bar is permanently visible and part of the maximized window is covered by the menu bar, so you cannot read anything in the window.

[Alessandro Losavio (alo21)]

I have the same problem in Ubuntu 11.04 i 386

 Step to reproduce it:

1) Open LibreOffice Writer
2) Add a picture (Insert> Picture> From File ...)
3) Move the image around

Suddenly the bar is shown and Unity will no longer disappear.
The only way to make it work properly is to close LibreOffice Writer

[SPARTAN-11510 (qhm11)]

I've same problem, but the problem is with all windows, and with time!
Sometimes the menu bar doesn't hide, and all programs 're hide by the bar... and sometimes she block and since a lot of time she unblock....

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

The steps you told i follow them but unfortunatily i can not reproduce it.any other way??

[Nick Hangartner (nhangartner)]

I have the same issue with qt designer 4.7.2 on unity 3.8.14.
Unable to say what exact steps are needed to reproduce.
After using qt for 1-2 hours the unity bar is shown (for no apparent reason) and doesn't hide until qt designer is closed.

[Artuom (artem501)]

I have the same problem in Ubuntu 11.04 x86_64. After 2-3 hours of work (with LibreOffice, AdobeReader, Evince ...) the left unity menu doesn't hide automatically. Sometimes it's helped to switch to another desktop (workplace) and then to turn back.

[carlos rogerio tonussi (tonussi)]

Same problem here, but I don't know whether it happens due to some software or it is random. I normally work with libreoffice, firefox and thunderbird running simultaneously. But when it occurs, the only way I figure out to be effective to get the launchpad hiding working properly is, believe or not, dragging and dropping some e-mail from one directory to another in thunderbird window. For experience, I changed from the dodge windows mode to the autohide mode, to test I get the bug again.

[Luke Whitmore (lwhitmore)]

Same problem here.

I'm using two monitors. The smaller of the two has the menu bar on its left edge.

It's starting to drive me a bit crazy, as it obscures a valuable part of the screen. Maybe it's possible to hide the menu bar manually? If not - perhaps this would be a good feature?

[Luke Whitmore (lwhitmore)]

I think Firefox might have something to do with the problem, as it seems that when I close it, the menu bar / launcher auto-hides.

I'm running Firefox 5.0.

Can anyone confirm this?

[cjaysson (cjaysson)]

+Luke Whitmore, also running Firefox 5.0 on Ubuntu 11.04. Closing Firefox and maximizing a different window (Netbeans) did not cause the launcher to auto-hide.

[maboiteaspam (maboiteaspam)]

Hi,
im experiencing the same problem.
I do essentially encounter the problem with netbeans. But once it s here, all windows are concerned.
This bug is really annoying : \

I d like to know what to restart to avoid this until dev find a bit of time to solve this issue ? It is not nautilus, i already tried : _\
Do you have an idea ?

[SPARTAN-11510 (qhm11)]

I've found how to unlock when the problem start. You should open your web browser and you drag an image anywhere.... (under google chrome it work with favorites)

[Mircea Deaconu (mirceade)]

Confirmed workaround!

[gianni (giannife)]

still a bug in 11.10
At some point the unity bar will stay visible unless you select "fullscreen" (for example in firefox). The normal behaviour is that the bar is hidden whenever a window is maximized.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 734908, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.