Comment 63 for bug 362359

Running Karmic 9.10, on a laptop with a trackpad and USB mouse. I ran the command given by Darryl in comment #57 and the tendency to regain and keep focus of a window improved slightly. Still not great though, as every time I try to switch focus to a window (or lose it due to interacting with the top or bottom panels) I have to play around with Ctrl-Alt-D and right-clicking.

Once the focus goes away, the workaround I've found for switching focus to another window involves
1. Ctrl-Alt-Ding to minimize everything
2. Clicking the window I want open, then
3. Right clicking its tab on the bottom panel (or alternatively, as others have noticed, the Desktop) and clicking back into the desired window until I notice the window picking up my mouse placement.

As soon as the window is not in the specific focused state (from clicking anywhere else), moving, resizing, maximizing, minimizing that window or using any of the windows menus or buttons becomes impossible (the pointer doesn't change contextually to the "resize window" arrows at the window's edges and the buttons don't highlight when hovered over).

I cannot stress enough how crippling this is, especially for a new user who doesn't know a workaround (or keyboard shortcuts). This bug essentially eliminates any kind of efficient multi-tasking using multiple open windows.