Bug confirmed. But to lower a window with middle click you need to be logged into a Xorg session. It doesn't work in Wayland sessions (bug 1698083).
** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: mutter (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: mutter (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1744970 Title: Lowering some windows causes other, unrelated windows to also be lowered. Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Steps to reproduce: 1. Open four windows, each using half of the screen: ┌──C──╥──D──┐ ┌──A──╥──B──┐ │┌──A─╨╥──B─┴┐ │ ║ │ ││ ║ │ │ ║ │ └┤ ║ │ └─────╨─────┘ └─────╨─────┘ 2D view 3D view 2. Lower window A. Expected behavior: Window A is lowered: ┌──A──╥──D──┐ ┌──C──╥──B──┐ │┌──C─╨╥──B─┴┐ │ ║ │ ││ ║ │ │ ║ │ └┤ ║ │ └─────╨─────┘ └─────╨─────┘ 2D view 3D view Actual behavior: Window A and window B are lowered: ┌──A──╥──B──┐ ┌──C──╥──D──┐ │┌──C─╨╥──D─┴┐ │ ║ │ ││ ║ │ │ ║ │ └┤ ║ │ └─────╨─────┘ └─────╨─────┘ 2D view 3D view ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-30.33-generic 4.13.13 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-30-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Tue Jan 23 07:50:21 2018 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-15 (495 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719) SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2018-01-21 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1744970/+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