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[Bug 1666623] [NEW] Windows disappear on disconnecting external monitor

 

Public bug reported:

When I undock my laptop and the external displays are disconnected,
sometimes the windows which were on those displays end up on my laptop's
internal display. This is useful.

Often, however, they don't. I can still see them in the panel, and I can
click on them to bring them back... but nothing happens. They are
somewhere off-screen and I cannot find any way to recover those windows
except to kill the application and restart it.

Often when this happens, even redocking the laptop and bringing those
displays back doesn't actually get the windows back — those monitors are
empty when they come back, or have only a subset of the "missing"
windows.

This is an HP EliteBook 850 G3 running Ubuntu 16.04.

** Affects: compiz-plugins-main (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Windows disappear on disconnecting external monitor

Status in compiz-plugins-main package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When I undock my laptop and the external displays are disconnected,
  sometimes the windows which were on those displays end up on my
  laptop's internal display. This is useful.

  Often, however, they don't. I can still see them in the panel, and I
  can click on them to bring them back... but nothing happens. They are
  somewhere off-screen and I cannot find any way to recover those
  windows except to kill the application and restart it.

  Often when this happens, even redocking the laptop and bringing those
  displays back doesn't actually get the windows back — those monitors
  are empty when they come back, or have only a subset of the "missing"
  windows.

  This is an HP EliteBook 850 G3 running Ubuntu 16.04.

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