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[Travis Watkins <amaranth@xxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

- Hello! I've just done a fresh install of Ubuntu Gutsy, and I'm currently
- quite pleased with how Compiz works.
+ When a new window is created and you have a fullscreen window the new
+ window gets focus but is still hidden behind the fullscreen window.
  
- (I had Gutsy before (re-installed after some hardware problems), but
- Compiz didn't work very well, probably because of cruft accumulated
- through upgrades all the way from Dapper.)
+ Steps to reproduce:
+     1. Open gnome-terminal
+     2. Make the terminal window fullscreen (F11)
+     3.  Open a new terminal window with Ctrl-Alt-N
  
- Now Compiz works great, and after a bit of configuring I'm actually more
- pleased with it than I ever was with Metacity. However, there are still
- a few kinks related to full-screen windows that I can't get around. I
- use full-screen windows a lot, so this is rather annoying.
+ Result: 
+ A new window is (correctly) opened, it is given focus (correctly), but it's behind the fullscreen window.
  
- (Note that I have disabled "unredirect fullscreen windows" because of
- other issues, so every window should be treated the same way now. Compiz
- runs on the "intel" driver, if that affects anything. Also, when I say
- full-screen, I mean it, not just maximize.)
+ Expected:
+ The new window should be on top of the stack or at least not get focus.
  
- 1) New windows appear below the fullscreen windows.
- How to reproduce:
-  a) open Firefox (or a terminal or anything else)
-  b) put the window in fullscreen mode (F11 works by default with Firefox and the terminal, but I have set Compiz to do that for every window).
-  c) open a new window (I have the terminal on Start-T, but with Firefox you can use Ctrl-N, and with terminal Ctrl-Shift-T.)
- Results: a new window is (correctly) opened, it is given focus (correctly), but it's behind the full-screen window.
- Expected: the new window should be on top of the stack.
- 
- I have to press Alt-Tab twice (first to return to the full-screen
- window, second to get to the newly-opened window) to get it to display.
- 
- EDIT: Note that this happens for _every_ kind of new window that should
- appear on top, including dialogs opened by the full-screen window, which
- is the most annoying thing (think of save-to dialogs, exit
- confirmations, etc).
- 
- 2) Windows disappear when dragged over a full-screen window.
- How to reproduce:
-  a) open a small window (a terminal)
-  b) open Firefox (or another terminal or anything else)
-  c) put the second window in fullscreen mode
-  d) alt-tab to the first window (non-fullscreen)
-  You should have now the full-screen window on the whole screen, and exactly one window above it.
-  e) drag the small window by left-clicking on its title-bar.
- Results: the window fades out (only the full-screen window is displayed). However, the move _does_ work (the moved window changes position), and the window doesn't loose focus (alt-tab returns to the full-screen window, and another alt-tab to the moved window).
- Strangely, if I use Alt+drag to move the window (that's a Compiz feature, I think it's enabled by default), the window doesn't disappear.
- 
- 
- Any ideas?
+ Note that this happens for _every_ kind of new window that should appear
+ on top, including dialogs opened by the fullscreen window, which is the
+ most annoying thing (think of Save dialogs, exit confirmations, etc).

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New windows placed with focus behind fullscreen window
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153676
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