Comment 8 for bug 963164

I am seeing the same problem. Right now, I have two windows that are invisible, but that react to the mouse hovering over them. I have one pidgin window and one chromium window in this invisible state.

I can hover my mouse over the pidgin window and the top bar changes to say "Pidgin internet messenger", and I get pop-up status boxes for my buddies. But the actual window is nowhere to be found.

When I hover over the chromium window, the cursor changes whenever it thinks it's over a link, and I can click on the links and the browser loads that page. When I alt-tab, the preview of the window shows that it actually did visit the link. But I can not see the actual window in its normal place.

I do not know of a work-around to get the window to show up again. I have tried (1) alt-tab to the desktop icon (2) alt-F1 to another virtual console and alt-F7 back (3) use the compiz shortcut key to maximize and unmaximize the window (4) use the compiz shortcut to move/resize the window (5) switch to other desktops using ctrl-alt-arrows (6) switch desktops using the compiz expo key.

Interested if others have found a work-around to get the application windows to show up again.

Even more interested in a proper fix.

Alan Porter