Public bug reported:
Hello! I've just done a fresh install of Ubuntu Gutsy, and I'm currently
quite pleased with how Compiz works.
(I had Gutsy before (re-installed after some hardware problems), but
Compiz didn't work very well, probably because of cruft accumulated
through upgrades all the way from Dapper.)
Now Compiz works great, and after a bit of configuring I'm actually more
pleased with it than I ever was with Metacity. However, there are still
a few kinks related to full-screen windows that I can't get around. I
use full-screen windows a lot, so this is rather annoying.
(Note that I have disabled "unredirect fullscreen windows" because of
other issues, so every window should be treated the same way now. Compiz
runs on the "intel" driver, if that affects anything. Also, when I say
full-screen, I mean it, not just maximize.)
1) New windows appear below the fullscreen windows.
How to reproduce:
a) open Firefox (or a terminal or anything else)
b) put the window in fullscreen mode (F11 works by default with Firefox and
the terminal, but I have set Compiz to do that for every window).
c) open a new window (I have the terminal on Start-T, but with Firefox you can
use Ctrl-N, and with terminal Ctrl-Shift-T.)
Results: a new window is (correctly) opened, it is given focus (correctly), but
it's behind the full-screen window.
Expected: the new window should be on top of the stack.
I have to press Alt-Tab twice (first to return to the full-screen
window, second to get to the newly-opened window) to get it to display.
EDIT: Note that this happens for _every_ kind of new window that should
appear on top, including dialogs opened by the full-screen window, which
is the most annoying thing (think of save-to dialogs, exit
confirmations, etc).
2) Windows disappear when dragged over a full-screen window.
How to reproduce:
a) open a small window (a terminal)
b) open Firefox (or another terminal or anything else)
c) put the second window in fullscreen mode
d) alt-tab to the first window (non-fullscreen)
You should have now the full-screen window on the whole screen, and exactly
one window above it.
e) drag the small window by left-clicking on its title-bar.
Results: the window fades out (only the full-screen window is displayed).
However, the move _does_ work (the moved window changes position), and the
window doesn't loose focus (alt-tab returns to the full-screen window, and
another alt-tab to the moved window).
Strangely, if I use Alt+drag to move the window (that's a Compiz feature, I
think it's enabled by default), the window doesn't disappear.
Any ideas?
** Affects: compiz (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Hello! I've just done a fresh install of Ubuntu Gutsy, and I'm currently
quite pleased with how Compiz works.
(I had Gutsy before (re-installed after some hardware problems), but
Compiz didn't work very well, probably because of cruft accumulated
through upgrades all the way from Dapper.)
Now Compiz works great, and after a bit of configuring I'm actually more
pleased with it than I ever was with Metacity. However, there are still
a few kinks related to full-screen windows that I can't get around. I
use full-screen windows a lot, so this is rather annoying.
(Note that I have disabled "unredirect fullscreen windows" because of
other issues, so every window should be treated the same way now. Compiz
runs on the "intel" driver, if that affects anything. Also, when I say
full-screen, I mean it, not just maximize.)
1) New windows appear below the fullscreen windows.
How to reproduce:
a) open Firefox (or a terminal or anything else)
b) put the window in fullscreen mode (F11 works by default with Firefox and
the terminal, but I have set Compiz to do that for every window).
c) open a new window (I have the terminal on Start-T, but with Firefox you
can use Ctrl-N, and with terminal Ctrl-Shift-T.)
Results: a new window is (correctly) opened, it is given focus (correctly),
but it's behind the full-screen window.
Expected: the new window should be on top of the stack.
I have to press Alt-Tab twice (first to return to the full-screen
window, second to get to the newly-opened window) to get it to display.
+ EDIT: Note that this happens for _every_ kind of new window that should
+ appear on top, including dialogs opened by the full-screen window, which
+ is the most annoying thing (think of save-to dialogs, exit
+ confirmations, etc).
+
2) Windows disappear when dragged over a full-screen window.
How to reproduce:
a) open a small window (a terminal)
b) open Firefox (or another terminal or anything else)
c) put the second window in fullscreen mode
d) alt-tab to the first window (non-fullscreen)
You should have now the full-screen window on the whole screen, and exactly
one window above it.
e) drag the small window by left-clicking on its title-bar.
Results: the window fades out (only the full-screen window is displayed).
However, the move _does_ work (the moved window changes position), and the
window doesn't loose focus (alt-tab returns to the full-screen window, and
another alt-tab to the moved window).
Strangely, if I use Alt+drag to move the window (that's a Compiz feature, I
think it's enabled by default), the window doesn't disappear.
Any ideas?
** Summary changed:
- weird behavior with full-screen windows
+ full-screen windows sometimes hide windows that should be above them
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full-screen windows sometimes hide windows that should be above them
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153676
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