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compiz package

Compiz Scale: Windows not reachable after scaled view

Bug #195122 reported by daStranger
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compiz (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

my system: dell latitude d430 notebook with intel graphics,
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy

Problem: I juse the scale function of compiz, initiation is activated by moving the mouse-cursor to the upper-right screen-edge. Now i can normally choose which window i want to display in the foreground. But i often use the possibility to click on a free place besides one of the windows to quickly show the desktop. When I do this, then the windows are sometimes gone forever. i can switch between them with <alt>+<tab> but they won't appear. Sometimes I see a edge of the window in a edge of my screen (for example a window went to the upper left then i see the lower right corner of that window) which disappears.

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Travis Watkins (amaranth) wrote :

Sounds like a problem with the 'showdesktop' plugin. If you turn that one off (it isn't on by default) then the windows will just minimize.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

Changed in compiz-fusion-plugins-extra:
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

Changed in compiz-fusion-plugins-extra:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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epicurea (suknat) wrote :

I can confirm the same problem. Looks somewhat similar to Bug #127445 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz-fusion-plugins-extra/+bug/127445) but that was fixed a while ago. I am using Jaunty and unchecking the Show desktop option within Scale will "fix" this - by which I mean the windows no longer go awol. However, the potentially useful behaviour of directly accessing the desktop by clicking on it is of course no longer possible.

Changed in compiz-fusion-plugins-extra (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → New
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Travis Watkins (amaranth) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/. Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

I use scale all the time and have never been able to reproduce this. It may be driver related. Also, I asked if disabling the 'showdesktop' plugin helped, not disabling the option. The original reporter had this plugin enabled and if you have it enabled as well that may be the problem.

affects: compiz-fusion-plugins-extra (Ubuntu) → compiz (Ubuntu)
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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