I am experiencing this bug on Lucid. The effects option (System/Preferences/Appearance/Visual Effects) is set to 'None'.
$ gconftool -R /apps/metacity/general visual_bell_type = fullscreen auto_raise_delay = 500 titlebar_font = Sans Bold 10 reduced_resources = false application_based = false theme = Hanso audible_bell = false focus_new_windows = strict action_double_click_titlebar = toggle_maximize compositing_manager = false resize_with_right_button = false titlebar_uses_system_font = false mouse_button_modifier = <Alt> num_workspaces = 6 button_layout = menu:minimize,maximize,close action_middle_click_titlebar = lower disable_workarounds = true focus_mode = sloppy raise_on_click = true action_right_click_titlebar = menu auto_raise = false visual_bell = false -- New windows are put in the background when a window has Always on Top set https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197288 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs