Unity never gets focus, it always stays bottom in the windows stack
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unity |
In Progress
|
High
|
Sam Spilsbury | ||
Bug Description
I looked if someone other have had this issue in Oneiric, but I can't find this exact behaviour, a lot of people is complaining about windows not getting focused the right way, the problem I face is kinda different: my unity launcher stays always on the bottom level of the windows stack.
Ubuntu Oneiric amd64
nvidia proprietary drivers
When I login, I can use unity to start a software, if I keep the software un-maximized, when I place the mouse on the left side, unity appears and stays on top of the other windows, as soon as I maximise a window, I can no more access unity using the mouse, if I use the Super key on the keyboard, I can see the current window's toolbar on the upper panel (the one with the File, Edit, etc.. menus), replaced by unity's one (I can say this because I see the close, minimize and miximize icons change from the application's one to the semi transparent ones typical of unity, now it starts a stranger thing, it looks like unity is in focus (I cannot click on the visible window's buttons), but is invisible due to it's stack level being the bottom one... I can say it's unity in focus because if I type (blindly) the name of an application I know (say Terminal) and I tap tewo times the down arrow key on the keyboard, it launches terminal...
I try to file a bug report on this, however, if someone has a quck fix, I'm glad to test it, using the desktop this way is really annoying... (I'm as a workaround, keeping a terminal opened in another desktop and run applications from there...
| Jo-Erlend Schinstad (joerlend.schinstad-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in unity: | |
| milestone: | none → 4.26.0 |
| assignee: | nobody → Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz) |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| status: | New → In Progress |
I'm experiencing that applications are above the launcher and the dash, but it's still the Unity stuff that has input focus. This is _very_ annoying. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to predictably reproduce it, but to fix it temporarily when it happens, you can minimize all windows, press alt+f2 and run compiz --replace.
We should have a keyboard shortcut for that in Oneiric, I think. There seems to be quite a few nasty bugs.