Window focus wrong after minimizing

[cmc302a]

When you minimize a window to the launcher, it remains with the focus, meaning that, for example, the global menu is the menu of the now minimized window.

The focus should automatically go to the window immediately underneath it or, if no other window is open, to the desktop.

When you minimize a window and then go to the global menu, it should be the menu of the window being displayed on top now, but instead is the menu of the app you just minimized. Clicking on the now-visible windows (or desktop) is not possible. Therefore, when you have two maximized windows, one in front of another, you can't serially minimize them by repeatedly pressing the minimize button. The second click will fail, because the focus is in an already minimized window.

Clicking on the application icon of the launcher *does* restore the application. Also, using the window switcher or alt+tab shortcut also restores the application.

Steps to reproduce:

1.- Open 2 different applications (never mind if they're maximized or not)
2.- Minimize the active one
3.- Try to interact, for example, with 2nd window or the desktop -> not possible (also note, the global menu still keeps the name and options of the application.)

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (64 bit) precise
unity -- version 5.18.0

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Stefan Bethge (kjyv)]

This seems to be invalid now, the behaviour on my 14.04 install is as expected by the original poster.
As there seems to be too few people taking care of old bugs in general, I'll close this one.

[cmc302a (cmolina11)]

So, someone just closed the thread it because in a different release the bug cannot be reproduced? That doesn't make much sense... 'Fix released' doesn't seem an accurate status endpoint for this issue... What got fixed? And how? Many people still use 12.04 LTS, which is the release affected.

[quequotion (quequotion)]

>cmc302a
YOu are correct, this bug was not fixed. In fact, not fixed in any version; ever.

[quequotion (quequotion)]

Anyone affected by this bug should check if they have "Keep previews of minimized windows" enabled in the Workarounds plugin. See bug 859885; perhaps we can narrow this down.

[quequotion (quequotion)]

Sorry, that was meant to be "See bug 1574136"