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Dash focus problems (above/below other windows)

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#1

As far as I can see we still have them now in PP, but CCSM "Window Rules" setting ABOVE to Class & Title of Launcher/Dash stopped functioning. It still is random: After some hours of work it happens, and you can only revert the behavior with unity --replace &

If anyone of you confirms, I think this is a important one. Impossible to use Dash if its under active window.

xprop shows it has _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS(ATOM) = _NET_WM_ACTION_ABOVE, _NET_WM_ACTION_BELOW . I don't see the point of it ever being BELOW.


$ xprop
_NET_WM_ICON_GEOMETRY(CARDINAL) = 1, 985, 48, 48
_NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL(CARDINAL) = 50, 0, 0, 0, 24, 1079, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
XKLAVIER_STATE(INTEGER) = 0, 0
WM_STATE(WM_STATE):
        window state: Normal
        icon window: 0x0
_NET_WM_DESKTOP(CARDINAL) = 0
_NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS(ATOM) = _NET_WM_ACTION_ABOVE, _NET_WM_ACTION_BELOW
XdndAware(ATOM) = BITMAP
WM_NAME(STRING) = "launcher"
_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK
_NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_STATE_STICKY, _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR, _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_PAGER

Regards, Effenberg

#2

I had this happening constantly and I narrowed it down to having disabled Nautilus drawing my desktop. If I turned the Nautilus desktop back on, the dash would appear over all windows again. Not a fix (it's obviously the dash being completely weird), but I'm interested if that's the source of the problem for you, too.

I covered that in comment #73 here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/805087

That bug is marked as fixed, though, and nobody seems to be paying attention to it as a result. Anyone know if there is another, living bug report at this point?

#3

Well there is a 'catch all' for corner case stacking issues here (mentioned in your linked 'fixed' report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/859405

I personally haven't had any stacking issues for quite some time, with or without nautilus handling the desktop though it seems hardware & or use case are possible factors.

#4

@effenberg

Ok.. I noticed a big problem when I deactivated Blur from Unity Plugins. I clicked on ronaccs text file and as I moved it (the window) it got all milky and fuzzy (out of focus) ..Just reporting in that it may have somthing to do with your compiz bug.