Autostarted applications have their windows appear under the launcher and panel

[Christopher Kyle Horton]

(Originally reported as bug #849916, then reported here after feedback on that report. This now also affects Precise.)

Applications that open windows as soon as the user logs in appear in the top left corner of the screen, directly underneath the panel and launcher (if set to never hide). This makes an Alt+drag necessary to move the window(s), and on Oneiric it causes the launcher to hide itself needlessly if set to dodge windows.

For an example of how to reproduce this, install alarm-clock-applet and have "Start automatically at login" checked in its Preferences. At each login, you will get a result like that described above (and in the attached screenshot).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.2.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-14.23-generic 3.2.3
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,imgpng,move,vpswitch,mousepoll,resize,snap,wall,grid,place,gnomecompat,regex,session,animation,expo,workarounds,fade,ezoom,scale,unityshell]
Date: Wed Feb 8 22:30:25 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111129.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-13 (57 days ago)

[Paolo Rotolo (paolorotolo)]

I can confirm this issue on my Ubuntu 11.10

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

thanks for the bug report. this particular bug has already been reported but feel free to report any other bugs you may find. see bug 861879