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[Eridani Rodríguez <eridanired123@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 730617 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/730617

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 730617
   Window management - When using scale/spread, windows don't keep their order

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Title:
  Compiz scale plugin: picking a window changes position of windows in
  the next scale

Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  How to reproduce:

  (1) After logon open a couple of applications, e.g.
  Nautilus, LibO Writer, Ubuntu Software Center, and Firefox.

  (2) Press Super+W to initiate scaled view all windows (provided by the
  scale plugin). The windows are shown in the following order:
  Nautilus, Writer, USC, Firefox (left to right, top to bottom)

  (3) Click Writer and then press Super+W again. Now the windows are
  shown in the following order:
  Writer, USC, Nautilus, Firefox

  (4) Click USC and then press Super+W again. Now the windows are
  shown in the following order:
  USC, Nautilus, Writer, Firefox

  (5) Click Nautilus and then press Super+W again. Now the windows are
  shown in the following order:
  Nautilus, Writer, USC, Firefox

  This example shows that scale plugin changes positions of scaled
  windows as they are picked by the user. This is probably by design but
  I'd say that such reordering of windows is counter-intuitive and
  confusing because the user has to visually search through all windows
  in order to find the right one to click.

  I'd suggest adding an option to change that behavior so that scaled
  windows do not change their positions. In the above example it would
  mean that windows were always shown in the following order:
  Nautilus, Writer, USC, Firefox
  regardless of which window was last picked.

  Currently CompizConfig Settings Manager does not provide such option.

  Versions:
  Linux pc 3.2.0-31-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 7 16:16:45 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.4
  compiz-core 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.4
  compiz-gnome 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.4
  compiz-plugins 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.4
  compiz-plugins-default 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.4
  compiz-plugins-main 1:0.9.7.0~bzr19-0ubuntu10
  compiz-plugins-main-default 1:0.9.7.0~bzr19-0ubuntu10
  compizconfig-backend-gconf 0.9.5.92-0ubuntu5
  compizconfig-settings-manager 0.9.5.92-0ubuntu3
  libcompizconfig0 0.9.7.0~bzr428-0ubuntu6

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