Comment 31 for bug 814833

Hi Mauricio,

If you have the Dash in non-maximized mode, it could save some CPU, and it would allow you to click away from the dash.
using no-blur helps a bit, but for me it seems to copy the wrong piece of desktop for the dash background, so it just looks odd.

like i wrote above, somehow if there is a maximized window below the dash, the dash becomes VERY slow and sometimes won't even close.
-the trick for now is to keep all windows unmaximized when you use the Dash.

also if you have trouble closing the dash, or the HUD: it likely did get the 'close' command, but the rendering stalls.
- switching to a VT, wait a bit and witching back ( CTRL+ALT+F4, wait, CTRL+ALT+F7) it gives unity the time to render 'off-screen', and chances are the Dash caught up with the close command.

unfortunately this bug doesn't seem to be a priority, as no one has even been assigned to it since it was confirmd about half a year ago...