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** Changed in: unity
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1166132

Title:
  New windows placed under unity menu bar

Status in Ubuntu UI Toolkit:
  Invalid
Status in Unity:
  Invalid
Status in compiz package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Sometimes when an app starts and creates a new non-maximised window,
  the new window is placed so that its title bar is underneath the Unity
  menu bar in the Unity stacking order. This is inconvenient for these
  reasons:

  1. it is of doubtful utility to be able to ever move a window such that its title bar is off screen, because then it cannot be moved back without using the keyboard (alt+drag or alt+space to invoke a system menu, both of which are expert-level shortcuts)
  2. even if it ought to be possible to explicitly position a window with its title bar offscreen if you, the user, know what you are doing, Unity choosing to do that makes it more complicated to rectify the problem if you are not an expert
  3. for added user frustration, if the created application's menu bar is *empty*, clicking where the window's title bar looks like it is (that is: on the Unity menu bar) will actually select and start dragging the window *below* the new one, which likely belongs to a completely different application, because "our" application is not maximised and therefore can't treat a "drag" of the menu bar as being like a drag of the app's title bar.

  See attached files for debugging details about Unity and a brief video
  demonstration.

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