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Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1116376
Title:
window spread not working with always on top
Status in Unity:
Confirmed
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Greetings:
I encountered an issue on my working install of 12.10 64-bit, and was
able to replicate the issue on a fresh install on a virtualbox.
In this bug, I will refer to window "spread" as the action achieved by
clicking on a Unity Launcher icon when multiple instances of that app
are already open. I can't recall if that is the official name or not.
I noticed that when I tried to spread an app's windows didn't work
when one of the windows was marked as always on top. I think I can
confirm that this issue only occurs when a separate app is open and in
between the current app's drawing stack order. Consider a working
example:
I have a browser (chrome) open in the background with my email. I
open another application (TeXMaker...) to do some writing. I open
another browser window, make it small, and put it on the corner of my
screen, set to 'always-on-top', to monitor something while I write.
I then want to see my email window. When I click the Unity Launcher,
I expect the two browsers to spread so I can select my email instance.
Instead, nothing happens. The 'always on top' window stays on top,
and the screen doesn't change.
OK, so I tried on a fresh 12.10 install on a virtual box.
1. I open two nautilus windows. I mark one as 'always on top'. Click on the
nautilus Unity launcher, and it spreads fine.
2. Then I opened firefox. It opens in front of one nautilus and behind the
'always-on-top' nautilus window.
3. I click on the nautilus launcher again it no longer spreads.
I can provide any further information that would help. I don't think
it matters but I am running the x-swat nvidia driver, and I have been
upgrading this installation since 11.04.
Thanks!
(Cross-reference: This is discussed on a thread I started at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12493592#post12493592 prior
to opening this bug.)
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