Comment 2 for bug 811757

Opening Banshee from the sound icon exhibits this exact problem, as do many other cases of windows appear maximised and unfocused.

In addition, if you have two maximised windows open for a particular application, and you switch to that application from another with the launcher, Unity will focus the window from this application that was active most recently, but raise the *other* one to the top of the stack. This creates the same disconnect between the window buttons/menu and the top application as above.