A window behaves _like_ it were pinned (always on top)

[Andrey Gelman]

In the backgroud / full screen we have Firefox (v 11.0).
In the foreground a Tomboy note.
I click links in the Web-page, the Tomboy note stays on top like it were pinned, but it was not.
At some point, eventually, the Tomboy note goes down as it should have from the beginning.
Possibly other applications may also behave similarly, but today it were these two.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.29-generic 3.0.20
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,grid,mousepoll,regex,vpswitch,snap,gnomecompat,place,wall,move,resize,imgpng,animation,expo,session,workarounds,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
Date: Wed Mar 21 21:53:33 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

You mean to say, when you started up Firefox, Tomboy was already in the foreground and stayed there?

[Andrey Gelman (andrey-gelman)]

No.
Firefox was open when I opened a note. The note is small - it doesn't
cover all the screen, so I went to Firefox, when the note window is on
the top. I clicked a link ...
Now I expected Firefox to go to foreground, but no - the note stayed at
the foreground.

There is another similar behavior ...
Let's say I have a gnome-terminal maximized or half-maximized (top
half-screen) ...
Now I open Nautilus by pressing Nautilus icon on Unity bar. Since at the
moment of pressing Unity bar is exposed (I use the dodge mode), the
Nautilus window opens beside Unity bar. When I move the mouse, the Unity
bar hides, and I have a strip of gnome-terminal between the edge of the
screen and Nautilus window, where the Unity bar was. I click this strip
of gnome-terminal ... Expected: gnome-terminal goes to foreground,
Nautilus to background. Reality: nothing happens.

All these things do not happen all the time, but are very not unusual.

On 03/22/2012 01:08 AM, Bilal Akhtar wrote:
> You mean to say, when you started up Firefox, Tomboy was already in the
> foreground and stayed there?
>

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

Can you still reproduce this?

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