@Alberts also have that issue on a fresh xenial 64 bits , ext4 partition, installed from the mini.iso, and using a gnome-shell session with nvidia-361. This is a pure genuine install (no ppa or else) but share an ext3 /home with wily 32 bits & an other wily 64-> xenial 64 dist- upgraded.
1) with the fresh install : when i have 'midori' (example case) and 'synaptic' (other example) opened on the same workspace. Then if i click on the top left x to close 'synaptic', it is closed as expected, but also the browser (which is not expected). The strangeness: no error popup nor logged. So its difficult to blame a package or an other. 2) with the dist-upgraded xenial, there is no such problem. But it has its own home folder (does not share the /home partition. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1538111 Title: untraceable serious bug in metacity 3.18 Status in metacity package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS uses 3.18 version of gnome metacity. When doing lots of mess work in Desktop (such as open desktop window, sudo window, dragging window, and so on), "!! WHEN CLICKING CLOSE BUTTON OF A CERTAIN WINDOW !!", there is "small possibility" for metacity to get out of work --> Many windows are disappeared, with only nautilus desktop background and gnome-panel on screen. "Live Window List" still exists in gnome-panel, but no matter doing what (such as open new application from gnome-menu or use Alt+Tab to switch window), none of live windows can be displayed. So the only way is to switch to tty1 using Ctrl+Alt+F1, and executing "DISPLAY=:0 metacity -c --replace", then all windows came back. Till now, I meet this bug every day, but still not sure how to reproduce it bug. I think you should trace what the metacity do when clicking "close button" that makes all windows to be disappeared. Thanks. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: metacity 1:3.18.1-1ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-7.18-generic 4.3.3 Uname: Linux 4.3.0-7-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback:Unity Date: Tue Jan 26 19:49:48 2016 SourcePackage: metacity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/1538111/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
