Unity

Unity launcher appears UNDER other windows

Bug #999773 reported by Andrey Gelman on 2012-05-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #906231: Unity rendered behind windows. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

In dodge mode ...
None of the open windows is "always on top" set.
When I take the mouse to the left, the Unity bar goes out, but ... it is overlayed by other windows, as it was just another window.
After accessing some lense, the bar returned to its normal behaviour.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-19.33-generic 3.0.27
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,grid,mousepoll,regex,vpswitch,snap,gnomecompat,place,wall,move,resize,imgpng,animation,expo,session,workarounds,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
Date: Tue May 15 18:59:56 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-03-26 (50 days ago)

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Andrey Gelman (andrey-gelman) wrote on 2012-05-15:

Dependencies.txt Edit (6.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (37.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (141 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2012-05-16

summary:

- Unity bar appears UNDER other windows
+ Unity launcher appears UNDER other windows

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2012-06-15:

Please do attach a screenshot of the problem you face when reporting a bug.

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2012-06-22

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2012-06-24:

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 974393, 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.