It is possible to focus Unity itself and Close it from the global menu

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 3.6.4-0ubuntu1

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unity (3.6.4-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Unity: Alt-F2 not working (LP: #580295)
    - When running with dual monitors, Unity will use the height of the larger
      one for calculating when to fold (LP: #696388)
    - Unity app launcher is filled up with doublettes (LP: #690537)
    - Unity interface not resized properly when external monitor is used
      (LP: #691772)
    - Dash needs keyboard navigation (LP: #727714)
    - It is possible to focus Unity itself and Close it from the global menu
      (LP: #728790)
    - Systray icons showing on top of everything (LP: #728719)
    - Pressing ENTER in the dash during a search should open the first
      displayed item (LP: #729699)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in LauncherIcon::OpenQuicklist()
      (LP: #731096)
    - inactive menus are not shown (LP: #732162)
    - Icon-only menu titles don't have accessible names (LP: #691677)
    - unity not working on rotated displays (LP: #694596)
    - unity_support_test crashed with SIGSEGV in
      nux::IOpenGLAsmVertexShader::IOpenGLAsmVertexShader() (LP: #709649)
    - Dragging .desktop file to launcher's trash creates space for new
      launcher icon (LP: #717250)
    - Unable to scroll in Applications/Files and Folders Place using mouse
      wheel (LP: #721447)
    - The applications place is empty (LP: #724259)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in
      nux::GpuRenderStates::SubmitChangeStates() (LP: #719156)
    - Quicklists are difficult to dismiss (LP: #726890)
    - Apps in Available group not rendered in Dash (LP: #729710)
    - Clicking on Shortcuts header doesn't do anything. (LP: #730774)
    - Zeitgeist FTS Extension doesn't filter on subject URIs (LP: #731208)
    - dual monitor,,,upper panel turns white / nvidia (LP: #685179)
    - Dash file Lens – Rename “Favourite Folders” category header to “Folders”
      (LP: #723866)
    - looking for 'places' icons in the wrong location (LP: #727672)
    - Empty trash quicklist item is missing an ellipsis (LP: #731472)
    - Wastebasket quicklist is missing “Empty Wastebasket” option when the
      wastebasket is empty (LP: #723880)
    - Emptying the trash from the unity sidebar should respect nautilus' "Ask
      before emptying" setting (LP: #730003)
    - start-here icon updated at wrong time (LP: #726267)
    - Unity overlay unhide issue (LP: #726926)
    - Orca doesn't report that the Launcher receives the focus (LP: #727133)
    - Accessibility object parent-child hierarchy on unity is broken
      (LP: #727908)
    - Regression: Orca doesn't speech out the selection changes on the
      Launcher (LP: #729165)
    - quicklist must respect enabled state (LP: #731533)
    - unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in
      dbusmenu_menuitem_send_about_to_show() (LP: #725631)
  * debian/control:
    - build-dep on latest nux
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:52:53 +0100

I am seeing this again in 3.6.6. I can focus Unity via bug #729929. The menu is appropriately not visible and cannot be clicked, but I can still trigger it! In this case, I focused Unity and press F10 to show the menu.

Dylan, I opened this bug 733725 a few weeks ago after this issue was marked
fixed.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Alex Launi <email address hidden>wrote:

> ** Changed in: unity
> Status: New => Fix Released
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/728790
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> Title:
> It is possible to focus Unity itself and Close it from the global menu
>
> Status in Unity:
> Fix Released
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: unity
>
> It is possible to focus Unity itself through bug #728787. (Open
> launcher right click menu and close that menu while the pointer is
> over the top panel or the launcher). When this happens, nothing is
> drawn in the top panel but the global menu still has its default
> File›Close menu, which you can find by clicking in the usual place.
>
> With bug #728787, this is actually not far fetched. One can easily
> focus Unity by opening a launcher menu while using a fullscreen
> application and then closing that menu with a click on the top panel,
> perhaps to access the File menu in the current fullscreened
> application. With the first click, the focus will change to Unity. A
> second click in the same place will open the default File menu,
> containing only Close. Pressing Close could easily make sense, but
> doing so will bring down the entire window manager.
>
> There are probably more ways to do this, so ideally it just shouldn't
> be possible to focus and close Unity.
>