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Unfocussed, maximized windows can't be resized or closed without focussing first.

Bug #778538 reported by MrSnowflake
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Bug Description

A maximized, unfocussed window can't be resized or closed, because its window buttons are not visible. So to resize or close you have to focus first. This makes these actions a two step procedure, where it's a one step procedure without Unity.

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Tags: usability
MrSnowflake (mrsnowflake)
description: updated
summary: - Unfocussed maximized windows can't be resized or closed without
+ Unfocussed, maximized windows can't be resized or closed without
focussing first.
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Everthon Valadão (valadao) wrote :

If I open two windows (e.g.: firefox and deluge) and one of them pops in front of the other (i.e., unfocused), if I click on the close button to close the poped window it mistakenly closes the window below, the focused but hidden one. EVERYTIME.

Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Everthon Valadão (valadao) wrote :

Maybe this is also a compiz bug, worsened by unity and its way to place the close buttons of maximized windows on the top panel. This could cause confusion by not knowing which maximized window is focused.

Possible fix:
(Ubuntu Forums - July 24th, 2007)
1 - First I went System>Preferences>Windows and turned on 'Select windows when the mouse moves over them', and set the 'Interval before raising' to 0.5, although I don't think the number is important.
2 - Then I logged-out and back in again to restart the window manager.
3 - Now when I mouse over an inactive window the window is highlited... clicking it focuses the window. This is nice, and I could get used to it, but not what I wanted. ...So I turned it off.
4 - Turning this on and off actually fixed the problem.
source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3071659&postcount=11

I turned on 'Select windows when the mouse moves over them' and it avoided the focus mistake issue, but I didn't try the "turn on and off".

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sabby7890 (tsalacinski) wrote :

The same happens when you have maximized window (eg. Firefox) and unmaximized on top of it (like Terminal). Unity shows only terminal menu, but you can't close Firefox without unfocusing the terminal (window buttons don't appear on top-left side of the screen when you drag your mouse over it).

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TomasHnyk (sup) wrote :

Everthone: I am not sure that what you (and sometimes also me) are the same bugs. I think your bug is bug 891110.

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