Comment 22 for bug 1025535

>>Bilal

Except that I have the same problem with ALL versions of unity in 12.04.

At the moment I am using 5.14.0 and previously I've used 5.12 in 12.04.

In fact, I have had the same problem with all versions of unity in all versions of ubuntu released with it.

Until a little over a ago, I just thought it was part of unity's design. It would make sense for a tablet pc to have unity always displayed across the top, just like it makes sense for a cellphone always to show the clock, wireless reception, etc. Since unity is primarily a tablet design, I assumed it was a tablet feature.

It started to get to me that it's REALLY in the way in some applications, like firefox, because unity covers the search and url boxes. It's also rather distracting while watching tv or a movie because unity is always there, across the top, displaying stuff i don't want to see at the moment. It also eats valuable screen space while playing games, which is particularly nasty for (old) low-resolution games that full-screen to 800x600, 640x480, etc.

So I read some blog posts on the internet about full-screen problems in GTK3, then I started a thread in the forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12174460 which initially was just a mess of miscommunication; and I participated in a few bugs here at launchpad.

Over a year later I am still trying to figure out what's wrong and why I can't put any kind of full-screen window over the unity panel when using the compiz cube.