I can confirm this in saucy. At least with Firefox windows, the behavior is kind of predictable for three windows: the last focused window will appear "closer" to the Launcher. But for more than three is unintuitive, not to say random.
With other applications, the bug doesn't seem to be reproducible for certain number of windows: - gedit's windows don't "shuffle" for less than 4 open windows. - xfce4-terminal's windows don't seem to "shuffle" for less than 5 open windows. In conclusion, the bug persists in saucy. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/916542 Title: Unity spread "randomly" shuffles overlapping windows Status in Unity: Confirmed Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When the spread is used to display multiple windows of the same application, Unity will randomly order those windows if they overlap. This is annoying when trying to locate one window from a group of very similar windows, eg terminal windows. Since they all look the same in the spread I have to check each one in turn. But because Unity shuffles them around, it is impossible to tell which ones I have already checked. Here is a video which demonstrates the bug: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwlpdfmtVGA ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: unity 4.24.0-0ubuntu2.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,resize,snap,place,mousepoll,move,gnomecompat,grid,vpswitch,imgpng,wall,session,unitymtgrabhandles,regex,animation,expo,workarounds,fade,ezoom,scale,unityshell] Date: Sat Jan 14 16:51:51 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110921.2) SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-09 (96 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/916542/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp