Global menu focus bug in newly launched fullscreen apps
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Unity |
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unity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
When you have a fullscreen app in focus, and open a new app, like nautilus, and it happens to open fullscreen as well this issue occurs. Now don't click and focus on the newly opened app and try close it immediately, maybe you opened the wrong one by mistake. What happens is that despite the new app being fullscreen the global menu is not focused on the new app yet still focused on the old app, when you try closing it with the global menu buttons you actually end up closing the app in the background and not the app which is currently fullscreen. I first picked up this issue when creating USB boot disks. After you format the USB stick nautilus will automount the drive and open itself as fullscreen. You know you don't need that window so you close it immediately with the global menu close button. Now you close USB disk creator instead and nautilus stays open causing you to start all over again, open disk creator, mount the image etc etc. time wasted.
This should be fixed so that when an application open fresh as fullscreen global menu should immediately focus on it and not the previous app below it. it would avoid a lot of frustration and incorrectly closing the wrong app. This happens to me at least once a day if not more. I have to now train myself to always first click the new app, somewhere, to get focus so that it may be closed.
Thanks
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.24.0-0ubuntu2b1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
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.proc.driver.
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 280.13 Wed Jul 27 16:53:56 PDT 2011
GCC version: gcc version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3)
.tmp.unity.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Wed Nov 16 14:04:55 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
nvidia-current, 280.13, 3.0.0-12-generic, x86_64: installed
vboxhost, 4.1.6, 3.0.0-12-generic, x86_64: installed
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GraphicsCard:
nVidia Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT 445M] [10de:0dd2] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:046c]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
JockeyStatus:
xorg:nvidia_
xorg:nvidia_
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS L701X
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 11/29/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A06
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A06
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: XPS L701X
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu26
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.