autohide stops launcher from re-appearing

[James Hunt]

If autohide is selected, the launcher can never be re-displayed by putting the mouse into the "reveal" area - I've tried "restore default behaviour", changing the reveal location and sensitivity to no avail. However, as soon as I disable autohide, the launcher re-appears and works as expected.

This is a behavioural regression.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity 6.8.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.26-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Mon Oct 8 08:36:26 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-30 (7 days ago)

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

Hmm. After rebooting, the problem has gone away.

[Ayzen (ayzen-quwe)]

I have the same problem. Rebooting didn't help.

[Sami Jaktholm (sjakthol)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1057000, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

@Ayzen: If you're using nvidia drivers too, you should make sure that the version of nvidia-current is 304.51.really.304.43-0ubuntu1 (run 'apt-cache policy nvidia-current' in terminal to see the version). Also note that if you're using the drivers from nvidia-current-updates package, you have a version which has this bug (304.51-0ubuntu1).

The bug 1057000 has a workaround listed for those who want to keep using nvidia version 304.51-0ubuntu1 (see comment #37) and reveal their autohidden launcher with mouse.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alex Baggott (alex-baggott)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. We have tried to recreate this on the latest release of Ubuntu, but cannot reproduce it. This bug is being marked as Invalid. If you believe the problem to still exist in the latest version of Ubuntu, please comment on why that is the case and change the bug status to NEW.