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[Apolo Luis <362359@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Running Karmic 9.10, on a laptop with a trackpad and USB mouse. I ran
the command given by Darryl in comment #57 and the tendency to regain
and keep focus of a window improved slightly. Still not great though, as
every time I try to switch focus to a window (or lose it due to
interacting with the top or bottom panels) I have to play around with
Ctrl-Alt-D and right-clicking.

Once the focus goes away, the workaround I've found for switching focus to another window involves 
1. Ctrl-Alt-Ding to minimize everything 
2. Clicking the window I want open, then 
3. Right clicking its tab on the bottom panel (or alternatively, as others have noticed, the Desktop) and clicking back into the desired window until I notice the window picking up my mouse placement.

As soon as the window is not in the specific focused state (from
clicking anywhere else), moving, resizing, maximizing, minimizing that
window or using any of the windows menus or buttons becomes impossible
(the pointer doesn't change contextually to the "resize window" arrows
at the window's edges and the buttons don't highlight when hovered
over).

I cannot stress enough how crippling this is, especially for a new user
who doesn't know a workaround (or keyboard shortcuts). This bug
essentially eliminates any kind of efficient multi-tasking using
multiple open windows.

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Focus gets stuck to a window - impossible to select other windows
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362359
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