Clicking on bottom half of applications switches to background application

Bug #2063831 reported by Husam
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mutter
New
Unknown
mutter (Ubuntu)
In Progress
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Basicly having more that 1 GUI application running in full screen and clicking bottom half of the currently opened GUI application will make the other application come to the foreground

Eg: Google Chrome & Eclipse IDE are both in fullscreen,

    - Clicking On Eclipse IDE bottom half of the app window will get chrome to display infront of Eclipse,

Eg2: Terminal and DBeaver are both in fullscreen,
    - Clicking On DBeaver bottom half of the app window will get Termial to display infront of DBeaver,

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+23ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-31.31-generic 6.8.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.capabilities.gpu0: Error: path was not a regular file.
.proc.driver.nvidia.capabilities.mig: Error: path was not a regular file.
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0000.01.00.0: Error: path was not a regular file.
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.suspend: suspend hibernate resume
.proc.driver.nvidia.suspend_depth: default modeset uvm
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 535.171.04 Tue Mar 19 20:30:00 UTC 2024
 GCC version:
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Apr 26 15:07:41 2024
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: noble
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] [8086:46a6] (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] [1462:1331]
   Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile] [1462:135d]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-04-25 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20240424)
MachineType: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Katana GF66 12UD
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.8.0-31-generic root=UUID=7c59c657-2812-4b59-8441-927f4302e8fc ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/05/2022
dmi.bios.release: 1.12
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends International, LLC.
dmi.bios.version: E1584IMS.10C
dmi.board.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.board.name: MS-1584
dmi.board.vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: REV:1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInternational,LLC.:bvrE1584IMS.10C:bd05/05/2022:br1.12:svnMicro-StarInternationalCo.,Ltd.:pnKatanaGF6612UD:pvrREV1.0:rvnMicro-StarInternationalCo.,Ltd.:rnMS-1584:rvrREV1.0:cvnMicro-StarInternationalCo.,Ltd.:ct10:cvrN/A:sku1584.1:
dmi.product.family: GF
dmi.product.name: Katana GF66 12UD
dmi.product.sku: 1584.1
dmi.product.version: REV:1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.120-2build1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 24.0.5-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-* N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:21.1.12-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:22.0.0-1build1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20210115-1build1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.17-2build1

Revision history for this message
Husam (husamdababneh) wrote :
affects: ubuntu → xorg (Ubuntu)
affects: xorg (Ubuntu) → mutter (Ubuntu)
tags: added: focus
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in mutter (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Husam (husamdababneh)
description: updated
Changed in mutter:
status: Unknown → New
Revision history for this message
TheBuzzSaw (thebuzzsaw) wrote :

I just barely upgraded from 23.10 to 24.04 on my System76 Thelio. I am observing this issue as well. I thought it was only Electron apps, but it eventually started happening with VLC too.

I am able to work around some of the issue by launching Discord and Visual Studio Code in Wayland mode.

I can provide any details, recreations/videos, logs, etc. Let me know what would be useful to diagnosing this issue.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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